Listening to Peddling Fiction Podcast, and having thoughts about generational differences.
They’re a few years younger than I am, and they’re talking about the sex ed they got during school. My wife, who’s a bit younger than they, and I’ve discussed some of what she was taught.
Some crazy differences.
It’s kind of in relation to the new dread disease, Monkeypox.
Fright really doesn’t affect me too much anymore.
Listening to and reading some of the reporting, I feel like I’m really missing the fear I’m supposed to have.
Whatever.
Listened to an interesting ep. of Kennedy Saves The World with Rep. Dan Crenshaw on using hallucinogens for PTSD. Amendments he worked on with AOC may or may not actually find law.
I don’t know that I’m terribly interested, but there’s more than I once had.
What I wrote back in 1999 kind of illustrates that:
From August 6, 1999.
No, I’m not talking about carving N’Sync logos into my arm with a razor blade……
But this is an issue I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Some of these coping methods which seem so normal, can be termed as self abuse.
Let’s list some of them:
Overeating
not eating
sleeping all the time
not sleeping at all
chainsmoking
getting drunk off your ass
coffee
but there are so many…..I tend not to sleep, and live off coffee.
These normally are described as coping methods.
It has been said that happier people live longer…..maybe it’s partially due to the lower frequency of self abuse due to sadness.
Well, I’m off to refill my coffee cup…..later.
There still isn’t a big desire to “get wasted.” A bit of a curiosity, maybe, because I’m not sure that I even can at this point.
Intense experiences.
I avoided them for most of my life.
What can I do?
Right now, I’m doing the sorts of things that “normal” people don’t think twice about, and seeing how I feel afterwards.
One thing at a time.
But I think I’d like to do something “crazy,” and see what the experience is like.
Maybe it’ll happen…..