Author:: Mary Choi Link:: https://medium.com/matter/eat-pray-roll-8bdb761c986d Tags:#media/article ecstasy drugs creative nonfiction Summary:: on evolution of relationship to drugs and how it frees you to have a good time
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- “With ecstasy there is no serotonergic choice but for everyone to love everyone and then stop. It silenced social math. It’s only when those dials in my head go dark that I can have a good time.”
- “As if their waking bodies collect experience points for their digital selves. I see a constellation of blue LED lights from vape pens and wonder about what it would be like to do “molly” for the first time now. Way back, ecstasy was great because it allowed you to talk to anyone. Raves were about dancing — music with gripping buildups and crashing breaks that shook your whole body. It was about gossiping in the bathrooms with drag queens and feeling popular even if you were poor. You were smooth, even if socializing sober felt like refueling a jet engine in midair.”
- “Being an adult is to feel hyperfamiliar with everything. When we were young we did drugs because they were exciting and new. New is a lost cause but these days I’d settle for weird. I welcome synthetic curiosity. ” ^-8UyQb5AM