The pursuit, the quest, the hunger of happiness.
Happiness means a lot of things to different people. Snowboarding down a mountain with your music blaring while you mock gravity and cheat death. Playing music, getting that riff just right and feeling like one of your favorite musicians as you pay respect by perfecting their notes.
There are so many things that bring happiness to people. The possibilities are endless but what about those who seek happiness in none-society accepted ventures? What about those avenues that hurt the person pursuing them?
I have a friend who seeks pleasure in drugs and I’m not talking about casual weekend stints either. Drugs that when taken in quantity can leave you addicted and, or cause death.
Is it wrong to offer help and assistance?
What if this person refuses the help, insisting that the assistance your offering isn’t required be cause there isn’t a problem? Have the drugs griped this person in such a way that they believe they are alright?
What if they want the drugs and the life style? What if, their pursuit of happiness is the drugs? Maybe their dream of owning a brick house with a picket fence was not what they had intended like we are all told to believe. Maybe this person believes that the drugs are their picket fence?
Would it be wrong of me or anyone to intervene?
A lot of people tell me “addicts have to want to help themselves.” How can you help someone who doesn’t know they are sick? Are we to let these people fall to there own demise? You can’t just force yourself on people and its not very good to sit by and watch either.
#1 by Judith on February 23rd, 2007
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Different strokes for different folks.
People have to live their own lifes, make their own decisions and learn their own lessons. Doesn’t mean you can’t make suggestions… but you need to be very careful about offering help or trying to intervene because you could easily alienate your friend from you – leaving them worse off.