Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Ecstatic Union and Drugs
I keep thinking about ecstatic union and how much it relates to drugs. The first time you take a drug you reach a high, then once it hits its peak, you start to get depressed. The next time you take it, you try desperately to reach the top again, except this time you have to take even more. With experiences in life such as love or excitement, the journey of reaching the peak is the fun part. It just keeps getting better. It's like always imagining how perfect it will be once you reach the top or when fairy tales end with happily ever after. But once you actually get there, it is completely different. Yes, being at the top is amazing, but it doesn't last long. Soon after, is the decent. You start to feel "withdrawal symptoms" and do whatever it takes to once again reach that high.That could mean replaying exactly what you did to get it the first time or pretending that you never left. Everyone does it. Maybe we should just accept that the "mountaintop experience" is over for that period of time and patiently wait for another to come along.
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ReplyDeleteI completly agree. This is the reason why people take pictures of themselves when they go on awesome trips or vacations. Being able to look at themselves and the things they saw during their "Mountaintop Experience" is a way of trying to relive the event or at least the feelings that were created.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying about an ecstatic union relating to drugs. People do look for the mountain top experience in their everyday lives through relationships and such. We all like to feel like we're on top of the world. However, I think it's important to remember that the experience itself is based solely on emotion. If we build our relationships and beliefs around how we feel when we're "on the mountain" they won't last.
ReplyDeleteI like mountains, and drugs.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding. I hate mountains.
Just kidding again. Can't you tell my brain has been fried by this semester.
ANYWAY. I agree with pretty much everything you said. A lot of people, however, decide that the mountaintop is all that they live for, and they try to get rid of all of the aspects of their lives that are ascending to it or descending from it. But if you get rid of the journey to the mountaintop, and the journey off of it, you're on a plateau. and plateaus are boring. You might as well just be on the ground.