Drugs and aliveness...

As we cannot consciously feel our own aliveness we are easily bored with things and people so we constantly look for some changes.
Goradana @ The Sanctuary

“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbours. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”

(Wendell Berry)