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In reply to the discussion: Great Non-Medical Reasons To Legalize Weed [View all]FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Q: "Do you toke because you are compelled to toke, or do you toke because it allows you to ignore the fact that you are living a life that does not satisfy you?"
A: Both.
"I have no ambition when I toke with regularity, I really just don't care to work very hard at something which is of no interest or challenge to me. That's just a fact."
I owe the universe a debt of gratitude for being alive and aware of my existence. So when my ambition and ability to do things I may not WANT to do, but which need to be done as a social or personal duty leaves, I consider it a problem.
"One of the things that pot does to most people is to change their perspective and that can change priorities. You think of things like, "I am getting up and spending my entire day doing something I don't enjoy for very little money to realize somebody else's dream". And once you've had that thought it makes continuing your routine that much harder, so you smoke to ease the discomfort, which triggers the thinking, which makes it harder, which triggers the desire, which..."
Being a stoner since the mid seventies, it seems like being straight is an altered perception to me. As far as "I am getting up and spending my entire day doing something I don't enjoy for very little money to realize somebody else's dream" - being stoned never helped me get a better job, it just made it easier to accept the crap job I was in.