Anyone one seen ESPN's "Unguarded" Documentary about NBA Celtic's Chris Herren's Addiction?
I was flipping through channels and I stopped at ESPN Classic coz I had to take a pee break... when I came back, for some reason, I started to watch it.
Initially I was skeptical because I know how these stories go, I thought, and in fact it does. I was never, arguably, seriously addicted to any drugs (perhaps in early years after I started doing coke... it got pretty bad because I liked it way more than I expected and everyone was doing it... even at work in the conference rooms and offices). Nevertheless I got sucked into watching this show. I didn't know why but I even weeped a little near the end... perhaps because I know how it could've been for me too if I've let my coke addiction go out of hand. I could easily have.
Luckily, I had this agenda, in the back of my head, of returning to school to be an artist because I got very jaded about the business world in general. Coke definitely didn't fit with academic art world, at least the way I saw it and experienced it. I had to be on my toes with all my wits and give all my effort to make something out of the experience; I didn't really have any time to waste to be in euphoria and burned out. Anyhow that's what really prevented me from taking that addiction to the next level.
When I returned from being art student wearing black clothes etc, yes, I eventually start doing coke again... but it was more like 'if I have some, that's good but if I don't, that's also good too." thing. Occasionally I do too much and too often but I'd say it never really gets outta hand.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I was surprisingly moved watching that documentary.
I was flipping through channels and I stopped at ESPN Classic coz I had to take a pee break... when I came back, for some reason, I started to watch it.
Initially I was skeptical because I know how these stories go, I thought, and in fact it does. I was never, arguably, seriously addicted to any drugs (perhaps in early years after I started doing coke... it got pretty bad because I liked it way more than I expected and everyone was doing it... even at work in the conference rooms and offices). Nevertheless I got sucked into watching this show. I didn't know why but I even weeped a little near the end... perhaps because I know how it could've been for me too if I've let my coke addiction go out of hand. I could easily have.
Luckily, I had this agenda, in the back of my head, of returning to school to be an artist because I got very jaded about the business world in general. Coke definitely didn't fit with academic art world, at least the way I saw it and experienced it. I had to be on my toes with all my wits and give all my effort to make something out of the experience; I didn't really have any time to waste to be in euphoria and burned out. Anyhow that's what really prevented me from taking that addiction to the next level.
When I returned from being art student wearing black clothes etc, yes, I eventually start doing coke again... but it was more like 'if I have some, that's good but if I don't, that's also good too." thing. Occasionally I do too much and too often but I'd say it never really gets outta hand.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I was surprisingly moved watching that documentary.
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