Insidious Adaptation

Cartoon depictions of worldly desires tend to make a situation more acceptable, more tolerable, less critical. The depictions of a friendly Santa, the cartoon ghouls, the jokey turkey with a personality fighting with a can of whipped cream. The comfort of child-like nostalgia, we are trying to recapture what we once had, innocence. Not innocence in what the the world has shown you through years of experience, but in knowing God as well. Ouch, see, that is the harsh stuff we don't want to hear. However, once one looks at what nostalgia in this world is, once one pieces apart why we feel a certain way, even a good way, we tend to see through the smoke of it all. Why do this? Why look into even the good emotions and see what causes them? Why would I stare at a box of Pop-Tarts, looking into why they provide comfort, a sense of slight warmth that all is right in the world, despite knowing it isn't? Because we cannot have one side of a coin without the other. We must understan...

Coping, escaping, feeling, distracting, hurting, pleasure, passing time, alternative states of mind, consciousness; all reasons, great ones at that, as to why a person would use what is so commonly referred to as, “drugs.” Drugs, for they are a nasty beast, or at least get a nasty reputation, enter the body, stimulate the brain, and artificially stimulate in what would otherwise have been an impossible situation. I mean, how else could I stay up for two nights in college to ace a test, only to feel extremely depressed and slightly paranoid afterward? How else can a man see the world inside his carpet and imagine little creatures stealing his pills? How else can another person relax at all, for they have what a psychologist referred to as the physiological implications of “trauma?” How else can one person get an erection, while another person fall madly in lust, both disregarding all social implications?   These alterations of an average self, a desire among the common folk. A ...