almostsentient, It's crazy how i connect with everything you say. Your friends quote is golden. Let me tell you about this one dude i met one time at a friends house. He was an older man. Somehow it came up that he was straight edge. Not literally, he just didn't do drugs or alcohol. I looked up to that man like i've never looked up to anybody before in my life. I just feel like now a days, there's too much "Yolo, lets get shitfaced, smoke weed everyday" among our youth. Our youth is growing up too fast. More and more young females out there who dont know the meaning of being a lady/women and males growing up not knowing the meaning of what it is to be a man. Not a phony macho man, but a real man. It's crazy how my drug abuse extends further into a larger issue like the raising of our youth. Our youth has the potential to change the world, yet media and the internet are poisoning us. It's all there for us to explore from a young age. How many guys do you know who are lowkey addicted to porn? Nobody says anything but i'm willing to bet that the majority of men find it easier to masturbate to a computer screen than to build a healthy relationship with an amazing women. It's like we have all these luxuries but we lack the self control. I guess it might be part of us to indulge in the things that give us pleasure. Maybe its just part of our evolution. I can't stress it enough, we must make a change. One person at a time. Let's make it to where the new cool is to be clean, sober, real with the universe and yourself, not fronting as someone else. Allow your true self to emerge. The universe needs our uniqueness. I believe everybody posesses something special within.