ldt060: I Wanna be Straight-Edged
#060 - [ I Wanna be Straight-Edged ] [ xod ]
I like a cold beer. I like a cigarette when i'm drunk.
But I Wanna be Straight-Edged.
This isn't the 1st time i've had this feeling. I knew a straight edged kid once and I spoke to him about it while we were on a bus into town. He got me thinking 'hrm, it'd be a good idea'. However, last time I saw this guy he was drunk as fuck, so hrm, I presume he lost the edge.
I guess it's one of those things you have to get into at a certain point in your life, and i've either gone past that point, or I haven't reached it yet. I could have easily been straight-edge when I was 15-18. I mean, I used to drink a lot for a period there when I started going out, but then I stopped for a while. But it wasn't through philosophy or politics, purely through the fact that I didn't feel like drinking. Hrm, if i'd thought of it from a straight-edge perspective maybe i'd still be there today, then again, maybe not.
I don't really know many straight-edged people. Most people I know like drinking. I used to know a lot of people into drugs but I didn't really want to be hanging around with them anymore. If I had some friends who wanted to go straight-edged i'm sure it'd be easier to take that step. For example, a junkie trying to give up a drug isn't going to have a very high success rate if he's hanging around at his/her dealer's house everyday. Likewise, an alcoholic isn't going to have much success quitting the drink if he/she works in a bar 6 day's a week. It just doesn't happen.
The key factor is environment.
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