Drug users are ugly monsters
Well, at least, if you look at this show, that's the impression one gets.
Just look at those awful skins, crazy or death-like faces, that neurotic behaviour.
This show shows 'human beings' that are the bottom of the barrel. It can't get lower than this. There are hobos that look better than the individuals on this show.
Though the family members aren't winning any beauty pageants, either, usually.
I just wonder how low can humanity go.. watching this show, it certainly looks like aside from murderers and thieves/robbers, nothing can be lower than these ugly monstrosities.
In this kind of a world, it's certainly understandable that people want to escape, and after living in the wonderful astral world, then incarnating on this painful, heavy, physical level where even a simple thing like 'boredom' can drive you out of your mind, it's easy to see how one would easily pick up a bottle, a pill box or a cigarette (of some kind).
But there's something pathetic about these addicts, besides their repulsive looks and how their whole being 'feels' (I guess, 'aura' and all that is broken or dysfunctional).
I mean, I can understand someone getting addicted to something (The Creator knows, I have been addicted myself) - and how sometimes it's very hard to get out of the addiction.
Still, in the end, I can't completely understand or feel sympathy for individuals, who can't (or won't) just rip themselves off of a dangerous substance. Enough is enough, and with just ordinary willpower, you should be able to quit pretty much anything. They say that cigarettes are even more addictive than heroin, and I have been able to put a stop to that (years ago), so there's really no excuse.
I didn't even need any 'intervention' for it. I just decided, "no more right now, no matter how much my body wants it". The point where I couldn't stand the 'craving' never came. I could always wait for it to go away, and it always did, until it just stopped coming.
I guess the trick is to just make the decision separately every time the craving attacks you - "not right now, my lungs still hurt", or "not right now, I want to keep this lighter feeling a bit longer". No one can quit for 'years' or for 'the rest of their life' - but everyone can quit for 'just this moment'.
I never really made a decision to quit completely or anything - I never changed my psychological status from "smoker" to "non-smoker" - so technically, I still 'smoke', but I just haven't HAPPENED to smoke for years as of now. Keeping it nice and open like that, keeping the possibility and having the permission from yourself to do it any time I want to, makes it easier to just say: "I also have freedom to enjoy NOT doing it right now".
Some people enjoy smoking, some people enjoy not smoking. The latter feels better to me.
Another trick is to find all kinds of other things, and dive deeply into them and enjoying them - for example, you can play computer / video games as much as you want, to replace the habit of smoking. Things like that work very well. Also, breathing exercises create life in the lungs, so they feel like they have really received a 'fix' of some kind. Once the worst cravings go away, with all these other things, it's easy.
I guess you could say you can 'channel' the "craving of cigarettes" to other things, by recognizing that it's just "craving", and you can sort of 'fool' your body and mind to think it is craving something else. Like, satisfying some -other- artificial 'need'. Even a simple, brisk walk can make a difference.
Let's say you have a craving, and then you start doing something extremely interesting that occupies your focus - the craving won't go away, but you focusing away from it allows you to just put it in the background and in a 'waiting mode', where it will then simply vanish, while you are doing something better. For example, a creative project.
And recognizing that a craving isn't a constant, but comes in waves, you can easier just go through the wave, that comes at a specificic time, completely predictable. After a meal, when drinking coffee, and so on.
In any case, I digressed a bit, but my point is, that it sometimes looks pretty pathetic, how these ugly monsters can't lift up themselves from the self-created mess that costs lives, causes crimes to happen, keeps money flowing to evil people (drugdealers etc.), and is dangerous to their surroundings, other people and the environment - not to mention the monetary costs that someone has to pay.
Why give yourselves so completely to a lowly addiction, that gives you just short, violent 'fixes' that won't last (and a lot of pain), when you could live a healthy, fresh life and do creative and interesting things?
Are human beings this pathetic? That they will give up everything, their humanity, their money, possessions, abilities, possibilities etc. just for a small, quick 'fix' of slight euphoria?
If there was a side-effect-free, five-minute "euphoria fix", and everyone could have as many of those as they want, would everyone be an 'addict'? Would people forget to eat, paint, compose music, program video games and demos for fun, make plans for travelling and seeing the world, etc.?
Would they forget to walk in forests, meditate, practice spirituality and evolve spiritually?
Would they stop evaluating their lives, their choices, thinking about their possibilities, trying to expand their tiny existence into something greater?
Would they just sit on a couch and pop those 'fixes' until their bodies stop functioning?