Many people I know always have this feeling of boredom after their high wears off (or whenever they aren't high). What do you do besides smoke to start enjoying baseline life again?
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Many people I know always have this feeling of boredom after their high wears off (or whenever they aren't high). What do you do besides smoke to start enjoying baseline life again?
Thanks:thumbsup:
I never stop enjoying baseline life! If anything, I find that the act of smoking, almost as much as the high itself, is valuable in slowing down and taking a minute in an otherwise REALLY way too busy day.
Bored, eh? Lol... I could use a good pair of hands around the ol' hacienda! Need a job? :D
sure, and a plane ticket. :D
i dont really get bored, but i would say that when my high is on the downslope things arent as interesting to me, usually this only happens when i get tired after smoking, which around here is quite often. But chilling at watching the boob tube is a fun activity, espeically kid learning shows, they make no sense if you ever watch them.
Im one of them...Quote:
Originally Posted by Euphoric7
I want to know it too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Euphoric7
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Originally Posted by Euphoric7
You've just got to go out and make things happen. Its up to you to enjoy life, nobody's gonna do it for you.
What goes up must come down eh? :rastasmoke:
Are you serrious......I dont have time to be bored, somtimes their no time to sleep so bordom is gonna have to take a back seat.
Well, I cant afford or want to be baked 24/7 (if that's what you mean).Quote:
Originally Posted by MadSativa
no, i think he just means he is super busy...barely time to be bored.
some people work like 14 hr. days, you know. and have kids. they aren't sitting around, ever.
im thinking about getting a 2nd job to deal with occasional boredom. im 23 and don't want marriage/children for a very long time (if ever) which leaves me with a decent amount of me-time. hobbies help too. get used to taking tolerance breaks often so that the periods between heavy smoking and abstinence aren't so profound.
the one and only major problem with most fun substances is that beneficial ignorance aspect. when you've never experienced them, you don't know what you're missing so you think nothing of it... but once you try them, regular life can be a bummer. =p
it applies to pot a little. it applies to other drugs A LOT.
thats the one warning i give to 'straight-edge' people: if you don't already know... think real hard about that first time. it was the one thing they told me in DARE that turned out true =p
It's hard to smoke only once in a day. Being high is such a euphoric experiance. When i'm bored, i'll try and hang out with girls, friends, play xbox live, go for a walk, work out, play football. I'd rather be getting high.
QUOTE=Reefer Rogue;1861151]It's hard to smoke only once in a day. Being high is such a euphoric experiance. When i'm bored, i'll try and hang out with girls, friends, play xbox live, go for a walk, work out, play football. I'd rather be getting high.[/QUOTE]
well, i like your thinking, but if i had a choice, id be smoking the girls up, nothing says im fun more than smoking, playing football high would be amazing.
Normal life is boring, high life is fun, if it was less fun we wouldnt do it. So normal life is boring compared to high life, its just a matter of what is more boring, obviously if your occupied with something then it doesnt seem as boring, but when your sitting around it is more boring than you could imagine. but remember, normal life will always be boring.
and jagarr: You make an excellent point about the first time. Its not addiction, is a realization that this is not boring, cause when I first smoked it caused me to realize that i have been really bored for a really long time, and this isnt bored.
Ive read your posts, and it seems to me that you have a little promblem with getting high, you are always asking people how to handle this are how to handle that when your high, please dont think Iam picking on you cause Iam not, I say these things with the upmost respect to you as a person, but I just got this feeling that some times your high mabey causing you some stress, I some time feel these things my self, so I guess that is why I wrote this ..........................love and peace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Euphoric7
^You're right. I naturally have anxiety and although I like the almost psychedelic experience of Sativas, they tend to make me imagine all kinds of problems.
that why i stay high:hippy::thumbsup:
I haven't smoked in close to a month. I stopped number for a number of reasons...
1.) The job that I wanted required a drug test. Passed it, so it's all good.
2.) Lost all my connections back at home from when I went to college. I'm back now and no one knows where the buds at. It's becoming ridiculous.
3.) Just wanted to enjoy a clear-headed lifestyle for a bit.
It's been nice. I haven't had a strong urge to smoke until about two days ago. Now I can't get it out of my head. Why? Because I was about to pick up. I was so close to getting some...and then it all fell through. You can't go getting my hopes up like that.
It's weird. I've sooo much in the last few years, but everytime I take a break it seems like when I want to smoke again, I can't find any. I hate it. Is it wrong that I want to get a little high? Damn. It's almost like I forget what it's like over these long breaks. It's strange. Bleh. I just want some herb, please :]
i actually talked about this topic with my best friend aka my main smoking buddy, and we were in agreement, that its not so much that life outside of smoking is boring, cause being high can be boring as well, especially when there are annoying people, and bad music around, but i smoke out of boredom, cause it cures boredom, it is fun, it is an activity, something to do, just like playing bored games, but it is more fun, and occupies for about 2 hours each time.
weed isn't smokable entertainment. Now if youre having fun it can enhance it, but it wont make a boring time fun like the dude above said
Well... i have to disagree... for me, the mere fact of being high instead sober is more than entertaining... in fact, for me is better to be high and doing nothing than being sober and doing almost anything. :rastasmoke:Quote:
Originally Posted by NextLineIsMine
Really Coelho? What youre saying is that youre a blazing recluse but you seem way too sociable to be that. If you think weed is more fun than any and everything else you could be doing you'll pass up alot of good times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coelho
Really... im a rather contemplative person... i like to just sit and think and percieve the world around... and doing it when stoned is still far more enjoyable than when sober... maybe i seem to be "too sociable" because i am kind to people... but it dont mean i care to be around them... being with people is fun, but most time i still prefer being alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by NextLineIsMine
And i like to do another things than smoking... but i prefer doing them stoned... thats why it seems for me that the being stoned is my preferred one... because everything (even doing nothing) when stoned, is far better than when sober.
Bored,Man,Summers here,Just chill outside,go beach,fish-I love going fishing,just casting my line sit in my chair and blast my radio while burning.Watching the ocean.Even gardening!
Camping.
for me, its not quite as drastic as coelho i do prefer some things sober, just cause they seem to ruin a high, like physical exertion, cold, and extreme heat, but there are a great many things that i would love to be able to be high for. Being/Getting high turns into an activity to do while bored so as to enhance the situation, i would rather sit around high and do nothing than sit around sober and do nothing is more the point i wanted to get across, but i believe being high would enhance all aspects of my life, i belive that working on the store side and using the registers is one of the few places that i just hate being high doing, but it happens sometimes and i steer away from those situations as best as possible, usually by just letting the other guy ring up customers for the first hour or so, but i get paid to wash dogs, and washing dogs while high is actually rather fun, its so intense, especially cause i choose the music most days when i work so i am able to tailor the mood however i want. Atleast when im high and doing nothing, the little things that are normally boring are entertaining.
I smoke on a few months, off a few months. I find this to be the most excellent balance possible, because it gives you perspective - when one gets stale, the other one comes around.
Right now I am at the beginning of a "smoke cycle." Sometime around mid-August I will taper off then quit completely until around November. This was initially necessitated by supply, but I find this to be an excellent way of doing this:
(1) Your tolerance resets.
(2) You stop wanting/craving it.
(3) You get a different perspective.
(4) Your energy increases
(5) You can pack in your "straight life" activities into this period.
(6) You save money
In the months I don't smoke, I give myself "homework." I read classics, I improve my computer skills, I take up new hobbies. Every night I read for at least an hour, make plans, rebalance my finances, and so on. Basically, I take care of business.
In the months I am smoking, I still do these things but less frequently - I tend not to start new projects. It is more about downtime, more wandering around in the desert looking for God:
(1) You are high
(2) You get a different perspective
(3) You don't feel guilty at all for it because you've just spent 2-3 months completely sober and have done so many goddam responsible things - in fact, have become an upstanding goddam citizen - feel so great, in fact, about everything that you want to get high.
Even in the months I smoke, I don't do it every day. Anywhere from 1-3 times a week is about right, and rarely more than once per day.
I used to be kind of a pothead; I used to smoke pot daily. Eventually this became as boring and limiting as constant sobriety, not to mention expensive (and risky). As I got older and the responsibilities piled on, I found smoking daily to be less than optimal.
The "quitting" phase sucks for about 4 days. I want to get high, and I am a little irritable. On the 5th day my desire to do this drops off, and in 10 days I'm not thinking about it at all; it was as if I never smoked.
After a few months of this, I "finish up" my books, projects, and so on, and, if I time it right, supply becomes available and I stock up. Of course I get really going at first, because my tolerance is zero. Then I begin the aforementioned wandering in the desert looking for God.
This is where I am now for the summer. In a few months, it will be time to taper off, pull things together, and be productive for a few.
I cannot say what is best for others but this works wonderfully well for myself.
Duke,
I completely agree with your sentiment. I'm at the phase after coming back from my first year of college after heavily indulging in marijuana. I still enjoy it but everyday really isn't optimal. The high isn't as powerful and amazing anymore. I plan on going back to college and keeping the smoking something I do on the Friday and Saturday nights and every once in a while indulge on a weeknight. Besides being way easier on the wallet I think it will be more beneficial for the mind and body.