This video on you tube has over 5 million hits because it is hilarious. I felt bad for the poor kid, but I truly laughed my head off. It made me think how as adults, we have become numb to the childlike part of ourselves. Clearly in this video, the boy was distressed of the foreign condition he was in and in an attempt to get out of it, he screamed at the top of his lungs. “Is this real life?” he also says.
I was having a discussion with my brother, Luis, yesterday about being under the influence of drugs, specifically marijuana. In the 1980’s he experimented with different drugs, much to my horror. Because of that I was always terrified of drugs. I tried pot on only 3 occasions in my entire life and I hated the feeling. I had wide range of effects from falling asleep to having vertigo for three days and thinking I had permanent neurological damage. For that reason, I will never ever touch pot again. About any other kind of drug, knock on wood, I was terrified of them. I can’t imagine how my body would react. Good thing I was obsessed with exercise. (more…)