I popped a few tranquilizers--washing them down with a beer--and slowly the world around me became soft and bright. The people on TV were all smiling at me and the colors around them were so brilliant I felt as if I had never seen anything like them before. I drifted in and out of sleep all day and it felt good to relax after so much anxiety. You probably wouldn’t understand, then again maybe you would. Sometimes it is better to be unconscious than to face those things that eat at us, drive us to do things that we normally wouldn’t do. Sometimes it is good just to be high…