SO lets talk about the 70's.

There seems to be an image of the 70's as revolutionary , care free and liberating.

That is not how I view the 70's mostly because a lot of my family members destroyed or began some self destructive patterns in the 70's like crack cocaine & heroine..just drugs galore and alcoholism and all sorts of stuff.

My Aunts and Uncles wore their bodies down HARD in the 70's and early 80's and the ones who lived through it all jnow have miserable exsistences.....all kinds of disorders, cancers, heart problems,nerve disorders, diabetes, bad livers, brain damage, most of which could've been avoided with better lifestyle choices.

I remember growing up and our basement was a club.. and every weekend it was on.. Music, Sex, drugs and alcohol and partying all weekend. When I was small It looked like they were having so much fun. They used to dress me up and let me come down stairs and dance with them..... or have a sip of whatever they were drinking.... They would let me and Zylette ( some one's daughter who was around my age .... she btw is an alcoholic now at 26 with a couple of kids) sip on the ice cubes from their frozen drinks and dance on the bar as the party lights bounced around......SIGHS

..They had these big ole Cadillaacs.. that would pull up to the house blasting with music and packed with people.

My Aunt had a Purple Cadilaac How Cold is that ? They dressed nice .... Gold was in so they had jewelry.. FOR DAYS..... They would slip me a dollar every now and then... To me it was so Hollywood. Now My aunt has congestive heart failure bcuz of all the drugs and poor diet choices She just had a triple bypass.... She isnt so glamorous to me any more

I look at them all now and they are all falling apart. My God Aunt Maria passed away yesterday after a long crack addiction that she just couldn't let go of. It really held her tight for the last 20 years or so.

All my life I watched her struggle with it. When your small You just think its like a cold and It'll go away ..... But it the last 5 years or so I began to see just how bad it was. I think she could see the reality in my eyes when I looked at her one adult to another adult. So For a while she wouldn't see me on purpose.

She tried to turn it around so many times... all failed attempts..... She tried to be a Jehovah's Witness.. she went to therapy,,,detox.,, counseling... moved to Florida for a while... but it was just too strong by that point.

What makes me sad is that they are al like that the whole crew of them My aunt Maria, Hillary, Claude, AAron.... all these adults that I have known for all my life are falling apart... They just didn't make very good decisions..... and there is no time to go back and change any of it... it just it... and they just will fade away one by one