I did mescaline and shrooms at the same time a few days ago. It was the strongest trip I've ever had. In the shower, I felt like my body disappeared and I had to touch it to make sure it was still there. Then it felt like my body didn't belong to me and was moving on its own. Then I started laying down in bed and thinking about my life and humanity. The pique was about four hours, but felt like eight, and a lot of it consisted of a very long thought loop because I figured out what I wanted to, but kept thinking. After the pique, my brain was so tired that five hours passed feeling like one.
Last night I did more shrooms and had a pretty deep trip. I realized things like why I am the way I am and why people act the way they do and I started talking really fast to myself and at some points, screaming. It really outraged me how people will make their comfort zones really small, their expectations really specific, then walk around glum and grumpy, like the world is so fucked up. It outrages me certain paradoxes that exist in people's minds. Things like feeling a burden in caring what people think, but being scared to not care what they think because of what they would think. Things like never wanting to be wronged or to have someone inflict pain on them, yet justifying it when they do it to others. They justify it because they know damn well they shouldn't. If they felt it was right, they'd need not justify it. We do not justify brushing our teeth or eating breakfast because when we do those things, we know we're not wronging anyone. Yet when we insult someone or fuck them over, it's because they were a bitch, it's because they had it coming, because they deserved it.
The most infuriating part of all, messages like "do unto others" and "drop the hatchet," "put down the gun, and have some fun, nigga" are all over the fucking place, different regions, religions, time periods, subcultures, and art forms, yet people just don't fully understand them. Those things are not something you promise to yourself once, or things you can call yourself a good person for realizing. You have to do them. Realizing you're a bad person doesn't make you a good person, nor does realizing what a good person is. You have to be it. You have to do nice things. Yet people think they're the exception, that the rules are not all-encompassing. That there is ever a time in which hurting another person is a good thing. It's not. They don't seem to connect the dots that the one who hurt us because they're just an asshole might have had just as much justification as we did when we hurt another person. But we're not assholes. Sure we're not.
We have so much more potential to connect to others, but we choose not to. So many of our thoughts get lost in expression. We have to figure out ways to say what we mean without saying what we mean, diluting and confusing our messages. We waste time, effort, and create unnecessary discomfort and fear because it's taboo to express our thoughts as they appear in our heads.
Just remembered another annoying paradox. The outrage/resentment/annoyance we feel at our feelings not being understood, and our unwillingness to understand the feelings of others. Most of all, I find it messed up how people act like I'm crazy/creepy for wanting to have deep conversations with random strangers. I think it's awesome. You experience perspectives and information that you could have never imagined confined to the specific groups you seek. It's enrichment of your mind that can change your life in a short period of time. It's amazing when "nerdy-looking Asian girl in coffee shop" turns into a meaningful novel, when "old, poor redneck man" becomes a funny guy with lots of insight into the under-the-radar business of the town, when "random black Muslim man in a bagel place" becomes a captivating story of leaving the inner-city for a better, more meaningful life outside of fear and death.