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 We forget that a drug addict is a human being, and that a human being is a whole lot less "things" than ENERGIES . Words cannot adequately describe these energies, let alone define them in the same way that products are labeled or we would have cooked up multitudes -no, a global population of holy geniuses with only the problem of what to do with all the empty prisons to solve.
It's no secret that Keith Richards is a superlatively significant musician, and that he has done enough dope to kill every horse ever to run in the Kentucky Derby. Nonetheless, to go on about that would be, for me, to make about as sharp a point on addiction as the sharp spike of a syringe that, when it's laid down, isn't even long enough to stretch across the screen above my keys pounding this line that you're getting with the pictures.
All too often, when we're dealing with an addict, instead of relating to one, we're deaf to the soul of a human being, who is on a critical level, the same as we are-whether or not, we're loaded or clean or have been stone cold sober our entire life.
Keith relates to human beings with empathy and, therefore, finds in people a uniqueness that few have the genius to put into words that he does, and that uniqueness is their soul.
He wears a skull ring to remind him that beneath all the deceiving appearances we are all the same, but that skull ring is exclusively his, just as everyone's mind is ultimately their own. He has the heart to see a person's true colors that aren't always visible to the naked eye or apparent on the surface.
Unfortunately, most people don't have minds of their own; some people tragically are so conditioned against what could be their individuality that they blow hot and cold like an air conditioner whenever someone pushes the buttons that their parents and the mass media put there. If there was more venting about this, maybe there wouldn't be so much white heat on the planet that is hotter and more dangerous than global warming-and it may be close to the root of it.
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