[truth_seeker]

Old Chinese story, applying to drugs as well, and on faster timetable for women:

Man takes a drink

Drink takes a drink

Drink takes the man

[Fightin Whitey]

>>>Old Chinese story<<<

That’s a great parable.

I hit the stuff hard and pretty much daily from my late teens until a week after my 40th birthday.

When I got around to doing the stuff I had to do to stop I would tell the people around me, the ones who were helping me quit and who had stories of their own, I would tell them that for seven years I had loved to drink, for seven years I about broke even and for seven years I hated every terrible minute.

Seems to sort parallel the Chinese perspective.

Thanks for passing it along.