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On 2006-06-21 14:01:00, Mister Pink wrote:"I'm inclined to agree with everything you say, just noting it doesn't apply to me personally. THE most un-therapeutic, most completely fucked thing I noticed about the program was watching an abused 12-year old girl get yelled at by a 22-year old heroin addict (why? take your petty pick). These kinds of things are the meat and potatoes of elan, and are most defitnitly deserving of our (and everyones) disgust and angerI'm going to sound like an elan-sympathizer to say this, but in most cases, we did something to wind up there, e.g. we weren't making the best or appreciating of our basic freedoms to begin with. In my case, somebody was going to do it - whether it was the state of New Jersey, a mental ward/rehab, or that shitty little boarding camp in the woods... Now I appreciate every single day I'm alive, and if things really get bad, remind myself that things could always be much, much more bizairre and tortuous.This is the role elan plays in my life, more of a postitive force (not because of what it was, but because of how I lived it and interpreted it) rather than a concious fact. except sometimes in the mornings when I'm shaving :wink: "
