Thursday, October 05, 2006

The highs & lows of love

A duo who could do without the dope

Have you felt lately that your life’s a roller-coaster of thrills and spills, soaring to the skies one moment and then careening towards the earth the next? If you are living in the same fiercely competitive, fast paced world that we are in, guess your answer to that would be in the affirmitive. This supposed joyride is even more pertinent for drug users (or abusers), who slip into the roles of Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde with consummate ease. If that’s not bad enough, here’s where it gets worse… what if your better half falls in that category? Dickens made light of it with fiction. He said: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” for couples where one partner stoops low to get his (or her) highs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Caught between the extremes of ecstasy and agony, it becomes increasingly cumbersome to hold close someone who sways like a pendulum from one mood to the next. This cataclysmic cesspool sucks in anyone who dares flirt with it, and even celebrities do not escape its clammy clutches. Take Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, where Whitney’s love of the ‘high’-flying life proved to be the beginning of the end for their teetering marriage (on the brink of collapse anyways). Their now-nixed nuptials have had to contend with deviant dosages of drug – apart from domestic abuse. Excruciating as it sounds, most drug devotees, well past the point of no return are beyond redemption. Trying to salvage shreds of a resultant relationship can be as painful as bailing water out of a sinking cruise liner with a beaker! Heed Brown, when he says ‘crack is wack’. He’s learnt it the hard way!

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