Re: ~cattleman cafe~ & another 24...
Once again I'm ending my week by quoting you Cowboy. And why not? You've imparted many, many nuggets over the years! This one was said in February of 2018. It seemed appropriate to use it after my recent trip down memory lane. I did not linger there or let it tug me downward, but instead I held different moments of the past in my mind and looked at them. I remembered an incident even farther in the past when I was 18. I was in the midst of a messy break up with my high school boyfriend and was broken-hearted. I was at the home of one of my gf's in the afternoon and her parents were both away at work. She said a drink would help and she got me a whisky! Mind you, I was not a party girl in high school and although drinking was a common event in my household for my parents, it was not something I even considered for myself at that point. I said no but she insisted. That was my first real drink. It went down warm...hot actually! LOL. But it wasn't long at all before I felt the effects and I LIKED it. It made me "feel better" momentarily. It did not start me down the road of drinking thankfully. That happened later for me, and gradually. But it registered with me and I guess in a deep way because even though I have a very poor memory for things long ago, I still remember that. I lost touch with that gf soon after high school but remembering that incident I now wonder if she ever became an alcoholic. She was getting into her parents liquor cabinet way back then and she spent a lot of time alone. I'll never know, because I did not like the effect it had on my senses and how fuzzy my mind became, but I did like the feeling of numbness. Well, there you go. Perhaps I could have known back then that alcohol was a dangerous thing to get mixed up with, but society doesn't present it to us that way. It's a pity it's promoted so much as the key to happiness and fun. What a lie. I wonder how much longer it will be before we are seeing commercials like that everywhere for marijuana.
So happy to have broken the chains! 24 more hours of freedom, please and thank you.
It's okay to think about your past, just don't let it get in the way of your future...
-Cowboy
-Cowboy
Once again I'm ending my week by quoting you Cowboy. And why not? You've imparted many, many nuggets over the years! This one was said in February of 2018. It seemed appropriate to use it after my recent trip down memory lane. I did not linger there or let it tug me downward, but instead I held different moments of the past in my mind and looked at them. I remembered an incident even farther in the past when I was 18. I was in the midst of a messy break up with my high school boyfriend and was broken-hearted. I was at the home of one of my gf's in the afternoon and her parents were both away at work. She said a drink would help and she got me a whisky! Mind you, I was not a party girl in high school and although drinking was a common event in my household for my parents, it was not something I even considered for myself at that point. I said no but she insisted. That was my first real drink. It went down warm...hot actually! LOL. But it wasn't long at all before I felt the effects and I LIKED it. It made me "feel better" momentarily. It did not start me down the road of drinking thankfully. That happened later for me, and gradually. But it registered with me and I guess in a deep way because even though I have a very poor memory for things long ago, I still remember that. I lost touch with that gf soon after high school but remembering that incident I now wonder if she ever became an alcoholic. She was getting into her parents liquor cabinet way back then and she spent a lot of time alone. I'll never know, because I did not like the effect it had on my senses and how fuzzy my mind became, but I did like the feeling of numbness. Well, there you go. Perhaps I could have known back then that alcohol was a dangerous thing to get mixed up with, but society doesn't present it to us that way. It's a pity it's promoted so much as the key to happiness and fun. What a lie. I wonder how much longer it will be before we are seeing commercials like that everywhere for marijuana.
So happy to have broken the chains! 24 more hours of freedom, please and thank you.
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