There are two things you hear about drugs....
"They are fun" and "They are bad"
Both are true, but on a scale they always will balance, the ones who abuse the drug they are using will lose that balance and fall more towards the negative effect. No matter what drug you take some effects will harm or tamper with your life. I know I'm speaking the obvious, but if a person uses a drug on occasion and for fun, I see no problem, as long as they are with people they trust, and they are having a good time and aren't uncomfortable, they should purely be for the use of enhancing the entertainment perspective.
I smoke pot, but I smoke it strictly for the following; philosophy, fun, and letting go. Do I smoke it day by day? Nope. Personally if I buy a bag I sample it, enjoy my high alone and then wait to smoke it with friends.
I feel that being with people brightens the mood and flow and sound of music, why? because the difference is better.
I smoke it strictly on occasion, and another reason for that is because people who smoke it alot are calm and just feel like they did yesterday. Where as I'll smoke with them and they'll be freaked out by active humor, I love blowing their minds by being more high than they are, especially when you talk fast or move your arms in a fast motion....Sometimes when I'm high it feels like a start over type of deal. You don't remember. or you just like the feeling, say when the new Shadows Fall album came out, I got high, and it was my first time in a few months doing so.
The atmosphere was taking place inside a dim lighted room at a friends house, I took the head phones, increased the volume and switched the bass on, the album was so much more intense then it was the day I got it, I mean literally, the double bass lines, the guitars, the bass, the vocals, they all fit well with everything...This is where my philosophical state of being appears, as the music was playing, I couldn't help but ponder on everything within the music, the room was one thing, but what I was hearing was the best thing. I know some people will seperate the instruments and lose focus, but I focused on the atmospheres between the dim light and the music, if the room were dark the music would have made me uncomfortable as I would not see much and I'd have to listen to the sounds within the dark.
You're probably asking where the philosphy part went...well, when high and listening to the music, I tend to question myself mentally. Questions that made me think the music was amazing, questions like "How could they make such an art, how did humans come across this type of sound, how come people enjoy a person who screams?"
Each one of them had me asking myself. Yeah, the one about people enjoying the screaming. See I'm a vocalist myself, and I growl and scream and sing, and what captures me is why do some people like that? Is it the anger they feel? Is it the cotastrophic poems they sing about? It's interesting but I somewhat felt stupid actually growling, what makes it a talent? but none the less, I had fun and continued to do what I liked, which was growling.
Another thing, being drunk is odd too...it's not like being high except I feel like staggering, having fun, doing whatever I want. Where as when I'm high I often question myself.
Parties while high.....................These events had me sitting by the camp fire looking at all my friends asking myself "Where do we go from here?" "Will I see my best of friends in a few years?" and sometimes images come with these questions like I see a long road, I feel displaced, and I see mountains....but the sound I heard was, to be honest, I kept hearing that filter song "Where do we go from here?"
Music is just that cool and being high makes it better at points.
Hell, sometimes music is what provides the memories...because this one time, we were at a party and some drunken idiot fell into the fire. It was the most craziest thing, but it was pretty much the biggest memory I have of that party despite the horror of seeing him in the fire, it was quite humorous to hear the chorus of Slave Labor (Fear Factory) playing on the speaker system.
But that's all I seem to really remember that summer, because of the song.
