"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.


Stuant63. "Fear of the Dark." Flickr. Yahoo!, 11 Feb. 2008. Web. 12 Dec. 2012.

We accept the love we think we deserve

"She and I were the same, meaning that we were created for each other, the type of love which we could practice was a matter of our own agreement, since from the beginning of our twenties we couldn't resist beauty. but we didn't have the courage to live it."

This quote made me think of the perks of being a wallflower and the quote "we accept the love we think we deserve". From my understanding the guy has fallen in love with a herion addict and he thinks he can save her with the power of his love. Him, being a herion addict himself, should know that his love is only going to suffocate and push her away. later in the story as he discusses his love life it seems as though he may not actually be in love with this girl, rather he's settling because he believes he can not do any better.

I think often times especially as teenagers and young adults we settle. We settle with a person we think we want to be with. We're so anxious to get married, have kids, start a career, and get a house that we often distract ourselves from the hideous personalities of our "loved" one.

As humans we like to help people, or the idea to help people, or rather the attention we receive from helping people and doing good deeds.  Which brings up my next point, Is Tom, the main character, really in love or is he in love with the idea of saving this girl from herself? I think too often times we find ourselves looking at drug and alcohol addiction, self-esteem issues, and mental health issues as some sort of project. Like maybe you're that one person who can actually be in love and save them, or are you that person that is in love with them while they're ill and then realize they're not who you wanted when they're better?

My thinking of Tom is this; I believe that Tom isn't in love with this girl who is strung out on herion. He's in love with the idea of saving her because no one was there to love and save him when he was addicted.





Rose,, Ashley. "When Panic Grips Your Body,." Flickr. Yahoo!, 06 June 2008. Web. 16 Nov. 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/22196205@N03/2556609897/>.

"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.





Buffer, Jitter. "Acid Flash." Flickr. Yahoo!, 09 Oct. 2005. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/93737034@N00/50858322/>.