Let Me Quit
Everything has a breaking point, if enough pressure is exerted it will break. Whether it's glass, wood, or even metal. Now lets take this theory and reapply it to a soldier in Vietnam. This soldier watches nearly his whole platoon get wiped out. He sees a lot, he sees Bobby Brown bleed to death, asking why can't he go home? He sees Johnny 'Blaze' Williston coughing and searching for a breath but his throat isn't exactly in working order, he even sees his best friend engulfed in the flames of a misplaced napalm strike. Now this soldier, tells himself. This is war it's my job to see this stuff I'm a U.S. Marine. Then one day he can't fight anymore, he just quits."I don't know what to do," Judy said. John was really acting crazy," "Should I give him an ultimatum?" It was so bad that she might have to have john committed at the time. Belushi met his breaking point, but he didn't quit, he turned to drugs. It kept him from falling apart, it helped the pressure and stress of it all. "There was a great deal of talent but the humanity had been dragged out. Drugs . . .cocaine was the reason." John was only delaying the inevitable, he had chosen not
"I believe that he wanted to quit . . .there was the pressure to do drugs . . .to be that for people . . .people would offer him drugs, he would refuse and they would say c'mon." B. Alter the environment superficially If the person can leave the environment that they are in, they can then, and only then, progress and move on in life. Everybody needs to know their breaking point. Most importantly they need to know when to quit, before something makes them quit. "Whatever, I must get out of L.A. soon. It's driving me to an early death, what with all my self abuse." If someone alters his or her environment superficially ahem . . .John Belushi . . .cough, cough. Then he or she realizes that they are losing control and will, Just like Belushi, this person realizes on one level or another, life's controlling them and taking them somewhere they don't want to go. So they take drugs to make themselves feel better, they make their reality more comfortable. They also could, become stupid (my way of saying they are in denial or ignorant of the 'bad stuff' in their life). They made the decision to do this subconsciously (most likely) or, 'forgot' they made the
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Approximate Word count = 786
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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