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I will go to social gatherings and every drug under the sun is there in ample supply. LSD, ecstasy, mushrooms, coke (this one usually gets completely consumed no matter how much there is), meth pills, Valium, whip its, ketamine, cigarettes, vapes, pot, alcohol, you name it, and again, they are in ample supply and people will share them with you for free. And of course people aren't mixing the uppers and downers.

This shit is out of control. There are even reddit-born gaslights where people will say nonsense shit to me like "People were always doing these drugs. They just hid them from you." No. they. weren't. And especially not in these doses and these combinations. It used to be people EITHER drank or smoked. I didn't know anyone who did both until near the end of highschool. There was no reason to hide something like this since I had been going to public bars with my parents since I was a young kid, and there were beer tents at fairs/circuses and smoking was allowed back then.

To top that all off, I was around the "underground" groups when I was younger, and people who freely admitted to smoking pot did not have regular access to it nor did they ever have access to large amounts of it at once, ever. I never went to random places and smelled pot. Ever. No one was sneaking tokes in the back room, no one smoked up before we came over - there was nowhere to hide really. And I know some fag by this point in reading my write up here is going to try to "flip the script" on me saying that they do have a story where this happened and i'm trying to say no one anywhere ever smoked pot (kill yourself). What I'm saying is that it was so few and far in between that I didn't even know what pot smelled like until i was in 11th grade. and, again, the people smoking pot did not have regular access to it. I recall a self proclaimed pot head being so giddy after this one guy came through and was able to get a regular supply to him, and he would run out well before his next paycheck and maybe not be able to even buy any that paycheck.

oh and yeah, eeeeeeeeeeeveryone says "drugs don't affect me. i'm the same on and off drugs". Then why do them? and no you're not. no one is.

the point here is that drug use has to be at some sort of peak. what does swinging back look like?

I have a shitload of PTO from having worked at my job for 8 years, and my contacts all over the US have nothing to report as far as something worth going and seeing. I even have friends who are already out there, single, tons of money, ability to travel anywhere, anytime, and they have nothing exciting to report - no neat sights to see, no interesting people, no fun adventures (some of the items on this list are arbitrary, so you'd think someone would have something, anything to report, but no, that is not the case), no monogamous relationships turning into bright and promising marriages starting a new chapter of their lives, no one is bragging about achievements/awards/milestones/jobs, and I don't even know what else to mention. I think there is one exception where a guy I know is adding a deck onto his house and getting a hot tub.

These are honest assessments of my observations. I'm not discounting something because it's outside of my interests or something. I legit mean that the world's life spark looks like it's being extinguished. I'll call up people after a day, a week, a month, several months, a year - they never have anything to report or catch up on. It's not necessarily a negative conversation (though people I know don't really speak negatively like that, if they talk about something negative they're just stating a fact about a situation, of which the solution is either pending or unattainable so it's accepted as part and parcel, and that's the end of it), but it's kind of flat. Flat like a river that's dying and lost its vigor and forced to meander the landscape in order to achieve its meager throughput (this post just got poetic).

I don't really know that there is a "solution" to this (unless someone has a miraculous idea on how to avoid or remedy this), but I thought I'd share. Anyone else seeing this? Do you have a totally opposite experience? If so, what sort of things are you seeing differently, and why do you think that is?

update: I kind of framed the post wrong. I don't need to travel to do things, it'd be fine if something were going on locally, but that is also not the case, which I meant to imply by talking about "all over the US". I mean...... there ain't a daaaaamn thing happening. Young people, old people, middle aged people, poor people, rich people, white people, brown people, working class, white collar, car guys, bar flies, book worms, hell gamers aren't talking about much either except how they're dodging microtransactions which is to cringey for me to even touch as part of a conversation (holy crap gamers have taken a lot of abuse over the years and now they're just crippled and ignoring the hand wringing merchant stealing all their money), stoners, outdoorsey people, hippies, retired people,

Do you really have to wear a retainer for the rest of your life? Kind of ass if true

In regards to the opposite sex

I have a serious problem with excessive sweating to the point of not being able to walk a full mile without my back getting soaked. I am overweight by about 60lbs and have hyperthyroidism, but I can't enjoy the summer without pouring sweat and it's seriously affecting my life. I've tried deodorant, baby powder, ice cold showers and nothing works. I've had this problem since I was about 14 (in my 40s now) and doctors never did anything for me. I'm at my wits end over this.

Who am I kidding there all Jews