Comments on: A Year Of Sobriety http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/ To be equivocal is to truly live. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:14:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3269 Jeff Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:49:39 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3269 @Xibee — I hear that weed is definitely a lot stronger nowadays compared to way back when. Something about how it's processed. A lot of people I know how their "weed phase", when they were heavy users, and then stopped suddenly. It almost seems universal. Being thin isn't so great, especially when you're a guy. My doctor told me I'm right on the bottom of the average (because the average is a range) for weight. If I lose anything, I'd be considered underweight. @Causalien — Very true. There's a lot to be gained from the experience. It's moderation that's the key. @Xibee — I hear that weed is definitely a lot stronger nowadays compared to way back when. Something about how it’s processed. A lot of people I know how their “weed phase”, when they were heavy users, and then stopped suddenly. It almost seems universal.

Being thin isn’t so great, especially when you’re a guy. My doctor told me I’m right on the bottom of the average (because the average is a range) for weight. If I lose anything, I’d be considered underweight.

@Causalien — Very true. There’s a lot to be gained from the experience. It’s moderation that’s the key.

]]> By: Causalien http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3267 Causalien Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:46:49 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3267 Not a bad alternative to the sober reality. I am having trouble finding things stimulating enough to do. Not a bad alternative to the sober reality. I am having trouble finding things stimulating enough to do.

]]> By: Xibee http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3208 Xibee Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:27:57 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3208 Perhaps the strains of pot they have now are more directly pleasurable than many years ago (when I left off doing it at 19). I recall all the expanded thinking as a delight that lasted about 8 months, but then dropped off sharply. After that it was just a fog and waking up empty, and even the writing and playing of music I did then, when taped, proved to be not at all what was going on in my drug-enhanced mind. And how lucky you are to be thin!!! It made me so overweight so fast. Don't worry, once age slows down your natural metabolism, the fullness will be there again and you'll look great and all your white friends will be struggling with too much weight. Perhaps the strains of pot they have now are more directly pleasurable than many years ago (when I left off doing it at 19). I recall all the expanded thinking as a delight that lasted about 8 months, but then dropped off sharply. After that it was just a fog and waking up empty, and even the writing and playing of music I did then, when taped, proved to be not at all what was going on in my drug-enhanced mind.

And how lucky you are to be thin!!! It made me so overweight so fast. Don’t worry, once age slows down your natural metabolism, the fullness will be there again and you’ll look great and all your white friends will be struggling with too much weight.

]]> By: Jeff http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3182 Jeff Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:16:51 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3182 @Darren — The strange thing is when I hear a song like Sia — Moon, which I've only listened to sober, I know I'm not fully appreciating it. It's an amazing track, but I can tell that I'm missing something that I would see if I was stoned. And you're totally right about still getting that high feeling when hearing certain tracks. Explode by The Cardigans brings me back every time. I remember Sensorium too, hearing it for the first time on the bus that weekend to Toronto, thinking to myself, "Darren <em>has to hear this</em>". I even wrote <a href="http://equivocality.com/2004/01/21/mind-milkdrop/" rel="nofollow">an entry</a> about Milkdrop. @amy — Thanks. :) It doesn't feel like a year at all, but at the same time, so much has happened and I stopped rather suddenly, so it feels like it's been forever. It's amusing to find out that you're a pot-smoker too. It just adds to the list of all the normal, intelligent, interesting people I know who do it. I always believed that I'd stop when I had kids, just in case an emergency happened with them and I needed to be completely conscious. It does become a habit though, as comforting as a pair of slippers. Something that takes you away like nothing else, and it's hard to give that up. Good luck, and let me know when you finally do. @Darren — The strange thing is when I hear a song like Sia — Moon, which I’ve only listened to sober, I know I’m not fully appreciating it. It’s an amazing track, but I can tell that I’m missing something that I would see if I was stoned. And you’re totally right about still getting that high feeling when hearing certain tracks. Explode by The Cardigans brings me back every time.

I remember Sensorium too, hearing it for the first time on the bus that weekend to Toronto, thinking to myself, “Darren has to hear this”. I even wrote an entry about Milkdrop.

@amy — Thanks. :)

It doesn’t feel like a year at all, but at the same time, so much has happened and I stopped rather suddenly, so it feels like it’s been forever.

It’s amusing to find out that you’re a pot-smoker too. It just adds to the list of all the normal, intelligent, interesting people I know who do it. I always believed that I’d stop when I had kids, just in case an emergency happened with them and I needed to be completely conscious. It does become a habit though, as comforting as a pair of slippers. Something that takes you away like nothing else, and it’s hard to give that up. Good luck, and let me know when you finally do.

]]> By: amy http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3174 amy Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:27:50 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3174 it's been a year already? i remember reading your blog entries while you were still smoking...sheesh I've been stopping in to visit for a year now? wow time flies i loved the bit you wrote about your mom finding your stash..HAHAHA that was classic. We'll be quitting soon too. we've tried but it's tough when you're exhausted at the end of the day from chasing kids round... we just want to relax, and that has become our habit but I do recognise the desire to quit and maintain FULL sobriety, becase thats the best place to be, to be fully present which is where I want to be. congrats on a full year! herb free it’s been a year already?
i remember reading your blog entries while you were still smoking…sheesh
I’ve been stopping in to visit for a year now?
wow
time flies
i loved the bit you wrote about your mom finding your stash..HAHAHA
that was classic.
We’ll be quitting soon too.
we’ve tried but it’s tough when you’re exhausted at the end of the day from chasing kids round…
we just want to relax, and that has become our habit
but I do recognise the desire to quit and maintain FULL sobriety,
becase
thats the best place to be, to be fully present
which is where I want to be.

congrats on a full year!
herb free

]]> By: Darren http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3166 Darren Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:01:06 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3166 SENSORIUM!!! i can still remember so lucidly where and what we were doing when you first played that song on your laptop in my car... pulling up to the red stop light on the left turn lane of mavis and eglinton...hahaha oh and milkdrop on winamp....wow.. hahaha damn.. SENSORIUM!!!

i can still remember so lucidly where and what we were doing when you first played that song on your laptop in my car… pulling up to the red stop light on the left turn lane of mavis and eglinton…hahaha

oh and milkdrop on winamp.…wow.. hahaha damn..

]]> By: Darren http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3165 Darren Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:56:43 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/04/17/a-year-of-sobriety/#comment-3165 I was just thinking about this the other day Those good times are missed.. A LOT Some of the music that I really enjoyed while listening high, now allow me to attain the same "high" feeling when I listen to it sober .. and it brings back such great memories ... that's one thing that I'm happy about I was just thinking about this the other day
Those good times are missed..
A LOT

Some of the music that I really enjoyed while listening high, now allow me to attain the same “high” feeling when I listen to it sober .. and it brings back such great memories … that’s one thing that I’m happy about

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