Once again: You can’t stay high forever

The spiritual toll of the modern lifestyle can only be postponed, deferred, with a spectrum of chemical interventions. But all you’re doing is building up a debt of the soul, one that will one day crush us under the weight of our actions the longer we allow it to accumulate.

“I don’t care, I’m happy” is all too often a self-serving lie, and it’s hard to break the illusion without the pure, stark, unyielding gaze of sober eyes