Drugs are everywhere. We saw it again last week, it is in the National Assembly as it must be in the hospital, in an infinity of professions which would take too long to list. In our personal lives, it is just as present. Regardless of social class, income level, or where we live: drugs accompany the destiny of each of us, whether in the form of recreational and illegal substances, or tolerated by society. such as alcohol or psychotropic drugs of all kinds.
The surprising thing would be to be surprised. Since time immemorial, drugs have accompanied the history of humanity. Better, it is essential to it insofar as it is a response to the very conditions of terrestrial existence, of this strange and confusing experience which consists of haunting a planet lost in the infinity of space and where one is born as one dies, without knowing anything about anything.
All life is a learning experience of pain. Being the fruit of chance or divine glorification, we go through the world like sleepwalkers who seek by any means to escape from themselves. What are cocaine, heroin, work, television, alcohol, anxiolytics, sex, religion, if not tools that allow us either to relieve ourselves of the burden of living or to help us to stand firm in the face of attacks of which we are the designated victims?
For many, it would be impossible to live if at some point we did not have the opportunity to take leave of ourselves. Forget our defeats and our sorrows. Slow down the flow of our thoughts that assail us to better torment us. Soften the arbitrariness of death. Silence these furies that strangle us. To soften this pain of seeing our existences smashed against the wall of reality when we realize to what extent our efforts to try to live upright are in vain.
Drugs repair what the flow of life breaks in us. They temper our bitterness, our chronic dissatisfaction. They make us lighter, more joyful, infinitely less heavy, forgetful of all our worries. They are an escape, an open door to other possibilities. They embellish existence to the point of making us love it. They depict intoxications which, for a moment, make the idea of living and dying acceptable to us.
Without drugs, there is no salvation. Remove alcohol, cannabis, anxiolytics, illicit drugs from the field of human activities, and you will transform a large number of individuals into torture victims whose existence will resemble an eternal station of the cross. Some, it is true, can do without it. But getting lost in work, going home to stand in front of the television before sleep plunges you into oblivion, is another way of absenting yourself from the world, from yourself, from the tragedy of existence .
Drugs are the medicines of the soul. The most powerful and most dangerous, those that society rightly would like to eliminate, are so euphoric or calming that anyone who tastes them, even if only once, will seek by all means to repeat the experience. He will have experienced the ephemeral of paradise before plunging into the throes of hell. Consuming it amounts to exile from oneself so completely that returning to normal life then appears like an impossibility to satisfy, a renunciation of the ineffable of pleasure and oblivion.
I never tried these drugs for fear of liking them too much and not being able to live without them. And if I drank, for reasons that had more to do with the circumstances of life and the power of family prohibitions, cannabis remained foreign to me all the time. I caught up on tranquilizers, which had the virtue of keeping at bay thoughts capable of swallowing me up.
Nevertheless, I remain convinced that we are all, to varying degrees, handicapped in life. That no matter our level of education, our financial income, our romantic successes or setbacks, we all suffer from a lack. And this lack, this anguish of living in a world that will forever remain foreign to us, causes such troubles, such deep wounds, that we seek refuge in all possible and imaginable drugs to alleviate them.
Yes, in many ways we are all potential drug addicts.
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