I love Wendell Berry and thanks to Sound as a Crystal for finding this gem:

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other. ― Wendell Berry, from The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

More related:

• We are all addicts

• (Psychotropic) drugs are drugs are drugs. Legal, illicit not so significant

• Addiction is not an Illness

• Ask, not why the addiction, but why the pain?

• Re-enter the woods that we might find our true nature — Wendell Berry

✶✶✶

Monica Cassani / Gianna Kali

monicacassani@gmail.com

giannakali@gmail.com