A Variety of Thoughts About Everything

 In the year 1761 the Seven Years War, AKA the French and Indian Wars in the colonies, was finished by treaty between England and France and Spain. One of the effects of the peace treaty was that French Canada was ceded to the British. This had a tremendous effect on the British colonies from before. For the first time they did not have a hostile foreign power to their North. One that had been in the habit of destabilizing things through their proxies, the Native Tribes of the area. And Britain was kinda broke. And they decided that they needed to raise some revenue and that the colonies, that they had just fought a long war to keep from getting wiped out by Natives or Conquered by France, should help pay the War debt thru a series of Taxes and Fees. Some people in Massachusetts (Massholes were trouble makers even then 😂) looked at these taxes and fees and decided that they should not have to pay them. They stated that as they had no say in them that they should not have to pay them.

 My first drug was my imagination. At a very young age I began retreating inside my imagination to create a world where I mattered. As I felt that in the world as it is I do not matter. And my imagination also became my first Avoidance "Therapy". And I call it that because when I was in my imagination then I did not have to deal with the real world. I could avoid all of the unpleasantness that was my reality. And, like all addictions, over time this was no longer sufficient. So I developed other ways to avoid reality. Reading was a huge one. I could get lost in a book where the world around me did not exist at all. This was, I have known for years, an extension of and fuel for my imagination. I also began the blame game. IE; my life was everyone else's fault. I bore no responsibility thus there was nothing for me to fix. Why should I look at what is clearly, to me, yours to fix? I should not. There was also the variation of the Blame Game called the Self Pity game. Becaus