My heart goes out to anyone battling alcohol and/or drug addictions. It's such a waste of life. I have never understood people chasing a high when you can get high on life. Jump out of a plane if you are looking for highs etc. Its safer too.
Not everyone can "jump on a plane". Not everyone can "get high on life".
Take a walk around Klong Toey slums - go to Father Joe's orphanage for HIV positive kids - these people have approximately fuck all to look forward to.
So a little yaba, booze etc is about the only "high on life" some people can get.
Of course Gazza - he's just a poor boy done good who couldn't hack it. It was all there for him and he spunked it up the wall.
I don't see why sympathy is necessary? Or are we sympathizing with the fact that some guy with a good right foot and a low IQ couldn't handle a shit load of money?
He was privileged.
My wife insists that on her birthday each year we go to an orphanage or charity run home for the disabled, her birthday money goes on a slap up mean for 2-300 people - which really, doesn't cost that much in the grand scheme of things. These are the people we should sympathize with. They can't jump on a plane, yet they seem to take life in their stride and put a brave face on.
So some guy gets shitfaced because he has more money than he can handle. sounds like he's have probably done the same thing if he wasn't gifted at footie. No great loss.
