Originally posted by lazs2
the question is strange. How do I know what I would have been had I not done certain things? I believe that all we have done and seen are what makes us what we are. All our experiances, good and bad.
I regret some things sure but nothing I can do about em now... I figure if I am a saint the rest of my life tho that I might get a little bit shadier spot in hell or a glass of luke warm ice tea every eternity or so.
lazs
Certainly you can only guess. You most likely would be a somewhat different person had you experienced less booze & drugs and more of whatever else you think that you may have done in its place.
It’s kind of like guessing if your life would have been better had you chosen a different career. Your career is part of who you are, but after awhile many folks realize that they didn’t choose a career that suited them very well. After gaining some life experience through age, they can only guess that a different career would have been better for them. Quite possibly they would have ended up living in a different town, married someone else or experience a major random tragedy. All of these possibilities are beside the point however.
It would be fair for some folks to say had they not relied on booze & drugs for thrills they probably would have sought adrenaline thrills through speed in cars, skies, etc.
Basically, did your experiences with booze & drugs do more harm than good? Without booze & drugs would you most likely have chosen other destructive thrills?
eskimo
