We Didn't Think About It But We

...for The First Time In My Life, A Voice Went Off In My Head:'you Have No Power Over What Happens In Your Life. Drugs Dictate Exactly What You're Going To Do. You've Taken Your Hands Off The Steering Wheel, And You're Going Wherever The Drug World Takes You.' That Had Never Changed. The Feeling Would Well Up Inside Of Me, And No Matter How Much I Loved My Girl Or My Band Or My Friends Or My Family, When That Siren Song 'go Get High Now' Started Playing In My Head, I Was Off.

Once I Opened My Mind To The Concept Of A Greater Power, I Never Struggled With It. Everywhere I Went, I Felt And Saw The Existence Of A Creative Intelligence In This Universe, Of A Loving Power Larger Than Myself In Nature, In People, Everywhere.

It Was Because All We Wanted Was Each Other's Constant Love And Attention And For No One Else To Receive That Love And Attention, Which Is A Selfish And Difficult Place To Be In A Relationship. We Were Emotionally Retarded, And That Was The Best We Could Do At The Time.

I Walked Away A Little Disheartened, Thinking, 'oh Well. I Came A Long Way To Meet The Wizard Of Oz, But I Guess I Won't. Such Is Life.

I'm Impressed With A 90 Year Old Woman Who's Still Out And About.