Thread by @YearOfTheKraken

Alcohol, Cocaine, Weed or Cigarettes aren't the worst addictions. The greatest drug for any human is another person.

The essence of another individual is the most intoxicating drug that could ever exist. It's extremely personalized, it's intimate and the most devastating.

The addiction causes people to behave in ways they themselves wouldn't have ever imagined possible. And the withdrawal symptoms, and the withdrawal is always forced, tends to leave people with side effects that could last an eternity.

Inability to cope with it, as so many can't, tends to destroy the future of multiple families, not merely one.

Like any other drug, the addiction is exhilarating. It's a constant high, 24/7, every day of the week, every week of the month, every month of the year while it lasts.

And the cleanest high one might add. It's perhaps the only drug which allows you to enjoy every moment to the fullest while in complete control of one's mental faculties.

But at the end of the day, it is a drug and addiction never tends to end well. Thus, despite ourselves, we inevitably find ourselves in situations we wouldn't want to be in, stuck at the very bottom after experiencing a high unlike anything else.

Often, we often spend the rest of our lives searching for that very essence that exists like a ghost beyond the periphery of our existence. It's always lingering but it's far. Oh so far!

But every human has his or her own unique essence, their own unique smell, their own unique manner of existence. Therefore, what has once been lost can never be found again.

And we must navigate through terrible manifestation of human existence while carrying an additional burden on our chest.

Fortunately, however, a person is capable of being intoxicated by more than one human essence throughout the course of his or her own existence.

And all that we could ever hope for, imperfect imperfections that we are, is to have one such essence by our side when our soul abandons the flesh.