Pills. Are. Not. For. Stabilizing. Emotions. They're. For. Psychotropic. Reasons. Just kidding.

I have known many people in my lifetime that have gone through many things in their lifetime, and as it is with most of us, sometimes those things are bad. And as they are bad, we are consequently affected by these happenings and our bodies and minds react to them in ways that may be different than other people's reactions.

I had a homie who would drink orange juice when he was angry. He was addicted to it like one might be to alcohol. He would get antsy if he couldn't get his orange juice intake to calm himself down.

That's a weird reaction, but it's not really destructive, so it's okay.

There are other people that cry though, a lot of us actually, most of us ... all of us. And it strikes me as odd that our culture has developed ways to deal with the crying by treating it like a disease ... like the reaction to a tragedy is wrong ... like reacting to a death or an addiction or a deception or a disaster is something that needs saving from. Like our reaction to a disease is the disease itself.

What are we trying to sanitize? The symptom or the cause of it? IE: Before getting kids in single parent house holds pills to deal with whatever they might be dealing with ... why not ... teach us how to communicate with each other so that dirty dishes doesn't turn into you're fat and your mother's a bitch?