Hey, it’s awesome to hear from you and I hope you pop in more.

I don’t mean to intrude, but it sounds like you got kicked out of your house and are just kind of floating around right now. I would urge you to consider your life a bit – in particular, in the last few years you seem to have taken a similar attitude to me about drugs that I had in my early 20s. I know what TIHKAL means and had amphetamine and nicotine addictions and an alcohol problem – trust me, it doesn’t end well. I avoided serious coke and opioid use, yay me, and I think you have, too, but even soft drugs can cause problems when you have times in life you just need to get your shit together. It just seems, looking in from the outside, that your life has been slipping the last couple of years and I’ve been concerned. I never said anything because I didn’t think it was appropriate, but I’ve been there. It doesn’t get better. I’m saying this stoned, haha, but there’s a time and a place for it, even if you have cannabis use disorder.

There are basically three sets of people at work: Pakistanis, Africans, and Spanish guys. The Pakistanis have buildings and culture and history and stuff so I just kind of gravitate toward them as a white dude.