There’s a lot you can learn from a Heroin Junkie. There’s a certain glamour in doing whatever pleases you most and answering to no one but yourself and, of course, your addiction. When you boil away all the impurities it becomes clear what makes a Junkie capable of living this way. First of all, they place themselves at the center of their own world. Secondly, they have no concern for anything more than a few days or weeks into the future. Maybe they exhibit these traits naturally, perhaps the addiction pains them enough to make them this way, or a combination of both. I’m not sure that it really matters.
Of course I’m not saying that I want to be on Smack. If that were the case, then attaining that goal would be simple enough. But there is a part of me that wants to be that free, that confident, and have all of the possibilities that that represents. I have my own Dragons to Chase.