Something I wrote while high

[u/Yuzzay]

To live sober is to train your mind in the art of life itself. Each day spent in sobriety strengthens the brain’s ability to navigate the world, to engage with others, and to master the delicate balance of existence. Sobriety is a craft, a skill honed over time.

Imagine a world where everyone moves on roller skates. On such a planet, skating would feel natural, effortless. But walking, something so fundamental and basic, would seem strange, awkward, even impossible. In the same way, when we stay intoxicated, we condition ourselves to operate in an altered state, and the more our brain is deprived of soberty the more it will tend to perfer abiding in an intoxicated state as it fails to function otherwise.

Intoxication dulls the brain’s performance. It erases the memory of how to surf the waves of life with a clear and natural mind. The longer the brain is deprived of sobriety, the more it clings to intoxication, not because it craves it, but because it has forgotten how to exist without it. This is where dependency takes root.

And from dependency, life begins to fracture. You prioritize the substance over those you love, over the responsibilities you carry, and, eventually, over yourself.......Life, once vibrant and whole, starts to crumble, not all at once, but piece by piece, until eventually, you've crossed the point of no return.