Hurt

Both the Nine Inch Nails and later Johnny cash sang the words, "The needle tears a hole, The old familiar sting, Try to kill it all away, But I remember everything." these words are referring to the use of drugs in order to escape pain, but they also acknowledge the fact that it doesn't work the way you want it too. Drugs are proven to give you an amazing high that temporarily masks the pain you are feeling but, in doing so it destroys your body's ability to naturally produce the chemicals that make a person feel happy. Why would any person choose to experience an inescapable low, just for a short time of uncontrollable high? I cannot think of a single reason. I understand the pain, a pain so deep you want to escape from so badly that you would do almost anything just to be free for a few minutes, but how can that short time be worth anything if the end result is a depression that you can only escape from by taking those same drugs again. People lose their real emotions, they forget how they love their children, or how they used to actually enjoy the normal average parts of life. Most of all they lose their self. How would it feel to forget the person you are and begin to do things that you would never have done otherwise. People steal from their families, they compromise the safety of those they love, and they take away their own lives and the lives of others. They are stuck, the choice they first made for freedom has locked them into a pattern of pain. They have a need for drugs just to feel normal, not good, just normal. Why do they do this? The reason I can think of is that they feel that they have nowhere else to turn, that the pain they feel is so huge that no one else could possibly be feeling anything even close to it. They cannot believe that they are not alone. Or maybe their whole lives they have been ostracized, and alienated because of their situation and their problems. They feel so lost that the only way they can think of to relieve their pain is to turn to unnatural producers of happiness. Maybe this is partially our fault, maybe if we would reach out to those people who seem different and troubled instead of turning away in fear, we would be able to help solve this problem. If everyone had a person that they could actually turn to they would not have to turn to drugs. This is not really a realistic request at this point, we cannot help every person, but is that any reason not to try?