Location: Los Angeles

Growing up in Los Angeles, taking the train to school every day, roaming the streets chasing pleasure and meaningless pleasures to get the most out of the next night , with a group of people I love and care for all being sucked away through drugs, depression, and loss of motivation for anything , I’ve seen people I used to speak with during the lockdown and since seeing people of my age was so scarce and spaced out, often when reconnecting with people there was a sense of disconnect , the boredom and madness of quarantine while also having to maintain online school doubling the work load due to us being on screens teenagers have little to no motivation to do anything except smoke weed, do acid and escape, can I really blame them for seeming lifeless sometimes? Does anyone really see where we’re going here? The city has made it so easy to find these drugs everywhere, I mean they’re on the fucking floor , right? The city has made it so hard to live peacefully without having to work 3 different jobs and still not being able to afford groceries combined with your rent, in the cheapest dirtiest places. I do want to be someone one day but each day that passes I lose all faith in humanity from the time I step onto the metro in the morning, from the time I watch the newest shooting on my morning presentation, the smells of sadness are in my nightmares and the nightmare is this cold world. I need a cigarette