Reply #2307 JackTheBat's post
Quote from JtB
"but i think the feelings we get when we are firing on all-cylinders are more dangerous. ppl on the board (and guys i know off-the-board) have confessed to the dangers of Wanchai and its delights. its not my scene as i did all that in civilian life, it was great, and had a different degree of danger. but more than a few have told me that Wanchai is dangerous to their mental health/wallet/liver/relationship-with-SO and for every guy willing to articulate it, there are dozens of others who are crawling on the edge of a straight-razor."
Warning: this is going to sound somewhat indulgent or even silly. But Bro's who've stuck in WanChai for a time, or Pattaya, or another similar den of sin might understand.
Ya know..., after my years in HK and going full-cycle on the WanChai scene (avoid>taste>indulge>gorge>over-indulge>vomit>purge>sample-with-caution>relapse>hehe) I have come to view WanChai as almost a "force" - one that brings your dark-side to the surface (if you let it) and wants ALL of you. Inhibitions and cautions and "normal" reality fall away one by one. Once you mentally get past the chaotic decadence, things you've llikely avoided your whole life slowly become exactly what you want.., what you deserve even! A rock-star lifestyle, complete with the substances and groupies, awaits you right over there -- and YOU deserve it Rockstar! (No, I am not big into "substances" myself).
I've seen guys (bankers, pilots, etc) disintegrate before my eyes over the span of the last 3 years. From happy, professional, over-achievering family men to drunken unemployed barflies. Almost unrecognizeable. I think this trait was always in them.., but normal, responsible life (family, career, etc.) kept it away and at bay. But Wanchai pulled it from some dark-recess of the brain and forced it into the frontal lobe.
A good mate said to me yesterday - "If I was single here in HK I would be dead in a year". He might have been exaggerating, but he wasnt joking...
So..., sample with caution.
(yeah, a little melodramatic.... kinda got on a film-noir mode...)
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