"you got hooked on herion because you couldn't cope with the cards you had been dealt, and you didn't have the patience to wait for the next."

In just about every story,book, movie, or song, about being hooked on drugs there's a reason that the person begins taking drugs, bever a good reason, but some excuse as to why they needed to turn to drugs to escape from reality. It's rather pathetic, almost, here's this man coming up with excuses for this girl that he thinks he's in love. When in reality no on can make excuses for her, no one can make her want to get better. The addict has to want it for themselves. They have to believe that they're worth recovery. Unfortunately, i think people fail to see this when they try to force people into rehab.

I'm going to make a prediction. Mostly going from background knowledge and from what I've read in this book.  My guess is the author, Tom, is eventually going to get pushed to the limit and tell the girl that she either goes to rehab or a) he dumps her or b) he tells her parents. Either way i think that the girl is going to reject both options and keep living her life hooked on herion or she'll die. It's sad to think about but unfortunately i think that's the outcome of most herion addicts. Given that this is based a real man I hope that my predictions are wrong. That the girl does believe in his love and faith and her and she goes and get's help.


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The illusion of love

"But it is nicer not to test it and to leave a crumb of hope, than to finally be convinced that happiness is an illusion which makes it easier to wake up, but it is still only an illusion."
When the author said this he was talking about how like humans, dogs are often beat as puppies to train them from right from wrong. He then talks about how happiness is a negative. Happiness is always just an illusion. Coming from a herion addict i get the quote above however, I think that his viewpoints would change after he was sober.  He then could understand that happiness is not an illusion. You need to create your own happiness rather than depending on other people to supply it for you.

It's interesting that the author said that happiness is only an illusion, I read somewhere online that people far too often depend on other people for their happiness. That once those people fade away or leave the happiness you once knew is gone. It almost seems a little ridiculous, right? Depending on other people around you to make you feel happiness. Which brings up the question: Can people be truly happy on their own? Can someone completely create happiness without the help of others? When the people around you leave, will you be left with only a dark shadow and the memories you once had of being happy?

At some point you're going to realize that happiness is not an illusion and it's not something you can depend on other people for. You can depend on people for a short amount of time but when they leave, you'e left with nothing. So at some point in your life you're going to realize this and you're going to be confused and lost about what happiness really means to you. I think that everyone is this world will go through this stage. I think it's rather important. Because, without sadness or the lack of happiness, how would you know when you are truly happy?






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"But we will give you a guitar and when you touch its strings bits of skin will fall of your fingers."

I'm used to reading rather strange books. But I never thought that a book so strange and poorly written, aside from fifty shades of Grey, but this book, Hooked on a junkie, tops the oddities of fifty shades. I started reading this book with an open mind. Never would I have imagined that the author would have sounded so un-educated and spacey. The author relives some of his drug-induced fantasies. But then the book kind of jumps forward for him to reflect in present tense and then include bits of interviews with drug dealers.

During one of these drug-induced charades the author, whose name I still do not know, is in some sort of fantasy where he is in some sort of hospital, i believe. the book is rather hard to keep up with. He asks for a guitar. But he is faces with an issue. They will give him one but each time he touches the strings bits of skin fall off his fingers. So now he's faced with the issue of should he play and lose his hands? or should he not play and keep his hands? He chose to play. Weather it was because he was tripping on LSD or because he actually had a true passion for music, we'll never know.

I like to think that the author's passion for music shown thru even in his LSD mindset. That it wasn't just the drugs making him play the guitar and seeing if his skin would actually fall off. He played and he played. And it came to a point where he and his audience knew that the skin was completely gone and there was just bone left. But then the bone started to dissolve as well. He just kept playing until the last possible note could be strummed out of the guitar. Maybe I'm reading to much into the text but I like to think that maybe just maybe the author, as terrible as he is, put this underlying message in the text. That people should get passionate about something, anything, as long as it's not LSD or Herion.





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