Day CXVlll

A Higher Power

     They took some back to their medicine man, and explained how fire made it a good thing. Man has always been an entrepreneur, an inventor. It’s how we got out of the caves. So perhaps the medicine man or some body else in the tribe, created a pipe, and the tobacco culture was born. Because it was soothing, they only used it for special occasions. At peace conferences, to solidify alliances, they smoked a peace pipe. It’s how Europeans discovered it, when the natives introduced them to it. Then the French took it to a whole other level, began to abused it, and now it abuses us.

    There are a lot of programs out there for peeps with hang ups.  A lot of peeps belong to groups such as: AA, Al-Anon, and Al-Ateen, organizations for members of AA. For those that don’t know, that’s Alcoholics Anonymous. There are also groups for peeps with gambling hang ups, sex, and drug addiction. I know a guy who belongs to AA, and when he first started out, he said to me:

     “Man, they tell us to leave it to a higher power.”

     I raised my eyebrows, and just looked at him. They believe the problem is too big for them to handle alone, so they tell them to leave it to a higher power. Since he wasn’t into religion, he said to me:

     “It works for me, man!”

     I smiled, and said:

     “You know dude, there are only two higher powers, bro. So if you ain’t with the  One, the other will just take ya!”

      He quietly swallowed some air, and as he gulped deeply, it made me chuckle silently.

 

     I didn’t want to rub it in. But, I guess he saw me, because he then said:

     “I’ll think about it, man…I’ll give it some thunk, okay!”