[DanaC]

The thing I realised about acid, is that anticipation and memory are the best parts of the experience. The actual period of being high is often not as wonderful as either of those two parts would admit.




[eta] on a slightly more serious note: I think one of the most worrying things about drug taking, particularly when young, is the way it can skew your sense of personal safety. How the fuck I exited my teenage years in more or less one piece is a mystery to me. I put myself, or allowed myself to go into, dangerous situations, with people who I now, looking back, most certainly would not trust with the safety of my 17 year old niece. Not saying they were bad people, though some of them probably were, but they were hard people. And I was a 17 year old tourist with an entirely misplaced sense of invulnerability, and a teen-fiction fascination with the Dark Underbelly of the world.

I was extremely fortunate that a handful of very nice, and in their own way responsible, but very hard people, effectively took me under their wing. Mainly the blokes. You don't have to be the most beautiful 17 year old to fascinate 29 year old men :p I of course, was mostly oblivious to this fact.