VC that quote is still making me laugh...
Soooo yeah. In a fitting tribute to the breaking of the abstinence break, the shit is quite uppity dank-like tonight. It's so damned good, it almost feels like it must
know it's this good. It certainly helps to have brought my tolerance level down--but I can honestly tell you I am still FAR from ground level...so let this be a lesson to all the kiddies: tolerance doesn't drop to zero immediately upon consumption cessation for
absolutely everyone...you buy the ticket and you take the ride, and that's just true all over. It's nice to have some effect again though...I think I was finding myself in the same boat DD had been in before (Or perhaps is still finding himself in?? You here buddy? I'm grasping for an oar that's obscured through my wooly Viking beard!): my medicine had more or less stopped working for me, because I had strayed from the format of medicating foremost with semi-frequent recreational use coming secondary (still a verrrry liberal amount of pot smoking going on!) to basically "tuning out" of responsible usage altogether, which means I just stopped respecting it and begun consuming it whole scale. Didn't really happen over night...but now it's all popping out like one of those 3D pictures in my retrospect. I suppose then all that I really can say is that I'm just glad to have some glimpse of a perspective NOW.
That's my take, anyway...and although my well practiced physical tolerances are still in full form (ie. I get nowhere nearly as ripped from this good herb as I should), I really do feel much more "centered", at the helm of my perspective and just energized to get up and set things into motion...and that particular desire had begun to wane before.
To bring part of that Martial Arts thread into this rant (can you tell I've had an itch to scratch?? Sorry that you all are my crutch tonight...but that's why this shit goes in spam, and nobody HAS to read it...and hell, people can burn the shit out of me if they'd like to; it's your time--you use it): I think a large part of the way that I feel now, after that absence from both the Internet and Cannabis, has more to do with the deepening and enriching of an active lifestyle than it does from abstaining from either of those things. I really do believe that. Exercise is so damned essential to our nature...and true physical training brings both patience and clarity of thought. That's why I say that I feel getting
more exercise is FAR more beneficial to you than vaporizing SOME Cannabis or spending SOME time on the Internet are damaging--assuming that those SOMES have numerical values which are both reasonable and responsible for your given situation.
This doesn't mean to downplay the importance of willpower and of the conscious usage of Cannabis, but I
do happen to think that more people are bent out of shape physically and emotionally by their -
diets -lifestyles (workspace/cultural mentalities and actual working/living conditions...notice how working always comes frist...and general/social/relationship stress levels, but certainly not limited to those things...) -material hang-ups and techno-obsessions/fetishes -levels of physical engagement DIRECTLY with the biosphere (ie. getting your hands dirty, you shmuck) and finally -levels of physical and mental engagement. If you measure most people up on the time and effort they put into cultivating these different faculties, I contend that you'll find most people don't spend much or any time at all, and they are in fact almost wholly on autopilot.
It is my feeling that a massively unhealthy diet is one of the main factors for our "sickness"--and not just fried and fatty foods that we know are bad, but processed/refined foods, chemically enriched foods, petroleum based agriculture--extremely concentrated "artifical" (no such thing, really...but some ways are undoubtably much more harsh than others) fertilization, agriculture in general (the conversion of what
used to be an eco-system into human bio-mass--to steal and pervert the words of some famous person whose name I don't have a chance of remembering), foods treated with pesticides and the resultant reduction of microbiotic life in soils, foods watered with bad water (yes, once again I'm espousing something that seems supercilious on the surface: the belief that MOST water people are delivered is tainted--and most often intentionally! Yet, methinks this is no surprise to most of us--fluoride, anybody?), foods packaged in wasteful and potentially harmful/leeching packaging, foods covered with wildly artificial dyes. It is my contention that most people eat dirty food, and a horrendous, almost entirely unnatural diet. Exercise is probably the next step, for as I've said I believe it builds the foundation for clear thinking. This is well beyond my
, more like my entire wallet. Though that doesn't really add up to a hell of a lot more than
these days.
Anyway, I am truly sorry to lay that on so thick...apparently I did not realize that I needed to vent that as bad as I actually did. I don't know why it's always laid out on you guys...maybe because I just happen to get a little high when I'm here??? Hmmmmmmmmmm?
Gah, at least be happy you don't have to deal with me in real life. There's a lot of funny facial expression and strange noises thrown in the mix during the stage show
So I decided to break out the Surfer tonight since the PD has been unplugged for the last little while--no need to pull that power when it's not being used, even if it is such a small amount. I will say, as has been commented before...that thing feels DEAD when you hold it without a charge. I'm so used to the gentle warm aura of my PD in my hand that it just feels like I'm carrying my dead pet out to the backyard to bury it, or something. It is cold and it is not even twitching. Haha it just makes me soooo sad...that I have to plug it in, if even just to warm my hands
Annnyway...something to say about the Surfer now, as well; but that's actually more relevant to topic so I'll post it in the appropriate thread.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I tried to take some pictures of this fresh bud I snatched with my Sisters sweet digi-cam, but I am literally too high to figure it out right now--too many damned little buttons. I've got a real nice bud picked out to photograph, so hopefully I'll figure that out tomorrow...or I'll just fall back on the other, much crappier but much easier to use camera.