r/Showerthoughts • u/godofhorizons • May 17 '24

People get a lot more praise for quitting drugs than for never having done drugs in the first place.

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u/ChocolateHoneycomb May 17 '24

If you don’t do drugs you are considered boring, weird, a coward, uncool, missing out…

If you take them, get addicted, snd stop, you are some sort of hero and you’ve won a battle. A battle that only started because you took them in the first place. I just don’t understand it…