Pill(s)

No this is not about contraception.  It is about the pills for "nice people."  Pain killers.  These people don't want to be like those wretched drug addicts, who shoot up and snort stuff.  Those are the real low lives.  No, these are nice working people, family people, even church people, who want to change the way they feel, or want to stop feeling, but in a civilized fashion.  It is a pain killer, not dope they say.  There are various ways to obtain the pills.  Some doctors will prescribe for you.  It shortens the hard work of living.  "Life is difficult," said M. Scott Peck in A Road Less Traveled.  Well lets take away the difficulty.  Pain is not optional.  It can be eliminated.  Until you cannot stop the solution.  Welcome to addiction.  You now join those snorters and needle people you looked down upon.

I have found an alternative.  I take two doses a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.  It is meditation.  Unlike the pill, I have no control over what effect any one dose will have.  But over time, I feel better, that is, I can better deal with the pain or difficulties of being alive in a world in which I am neither in control or the center of attention.  Meditation costs nothing.  It has no addictive parts.  It calls for me to make an adult, disciplined choice each day.  It does take one thing though. Time.