To Live One Last Time
"Don't go." "But it's late, I should wake up early tomorrow." "What if we die tomorrow? If I were you, the last thing I'd want to do is dance. Let sleep be for the dead." "Okay." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One week and one day ago, I came home drunk and high. It was 8 a.m. on a Sunday. An hour earlier, I had just finished having sex with a girl I had started dating a few weeks ago. Afterward, despite my wish to fall asleep cuddled together, she told me she couldn’t sleep in the same bed with another person. Reluctantly, I accepted her departure that morning. The energy and adrenaline still coursed through my body. To calm my body and heart, I decided to light up a joint and see what was good on TV. Reality shows where 12 adults, driven by hormones, lost their humanity in exchange for sex and parties. A Christian pastor preaching that his entire audi...