Truth.

I walked into Walgreen's tonight to get some cold medicine. I am still very careful as I walk down the same aisle I once explored to find my tripping equipment. As I am reading the ingredients in the back of the box to make sure there is not any DXM in it (a distant but dull temptation still remains as I laugh it off)...right then--- I see in my periphery two young men approach and talk to to each other on which type of cough syrup they are supposed to use for "it." I didn't have to think twice.....I already knew. These guys are planning on tripping tonight.  I turned and faced them and looked into each of their eyes. I was looking into a dulled and cracked mirror of the person I used to be. All I could say at first to them was "Be careful.." They looked at me in a sort of shock that I knew what they were about to do. I explained to them how I did DXM for almost five years and wound up in the psych ward. I was brief and left with the final warning "Jus