Jessy's Thoughts

I've often asked myself why such a large majority of our population is addicted to drugs and alcohol in these most recent years but yet the older generations seemed to have less of an addiction to something other than work. One day out the blue I was having the same conversation with someone else about it and it hit me, because they were just that, addicted to working. Just as we use drugs and alcohol to sequester our depressions about a situation or numb the pain in our life, they just worked through it, and somewhere along the way we started to devalue ourselves and the rewards of putting in a hard days work and started searching for other ways to spend our time in our heads working out our problems.  The way I see it regardless we are in our heads about our problems but we found it easier to consume drugs and alcohol so that it was easier to lie/fool ourselves into believing the easiest solution is the best so we have more time to do nothing with our lives and be okay with it. W

Growing up they always tell you life is hard, stay a kid for as long as you can. Be a good person and only keep what is yours that you worked for. What they don't tell you is that being a good person gets you no where except walked all over and no matter how hard you work through out your life it only takes two seconds to demolish a lifetime of hard work. The last thing they leave out is the key to staying a kid for as long as you want.  I know life isn't fair but it also shouldn't be this hard. I read of times gone by when money wasn't everything and you didn't have to have it to get what you needed. There was a time not too long ago when we bartered for things we needed and didn't have money for. A time when if you needed flour and the guy down the street needed cloth; if you had cotton and a cotton gin to be able to make cloth you could go down and talk to the guy that needed cloth, who just so happened to farm wheat, and make an arrangement to trade him just