Pleasure

work play

light dark

life death

pleasure pain

buzz hangover

noise music

chaos order

prose poetry

drug high crash

solar energy oil

build up orgasm

suffering enlightenment

Something cannot be begotten from nothing. There is no free lunch.

There is something about this world that pleasure cannot last forever. The great feeling that comes with taking drugs for the first time goes away after awhile. The first time is the best. Sex is the same. The anticipation and the first initial point of penetration is the best. Our bodies get used to pleasure and more and more is necessary to effect the same feeling. There is a reason for this.

Nature is parsimonious with pleasure. Euphoria-inducing neurotransmitters are ordinarily meted out frugally and for some accomplishment that enhances survival or reproduction. Drugs fool the system, temporarily increasing the level of these pleasure-inducing neurotransmitters.

All people possess an innate desire to alter their normal consciousness. Children at play will whirl themselves into a vertiginous stupor; holy men and women lose themselves in meditation. The desire to vacate ego-centered consciousness is deep-seated. However, some means of achieving this end are more dangerous than others. Drugs are powerful chemical shortcuts to altered state of minds. Anyone who uses them to satisfy the drive is trading off toxic effects for potency and rapidity of action.