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on 13-Nov-03 09:18 PM
when i was reading his biography on wave magazine..i found out that he had his own PAST and what he did motivates me..and inspires me still ..even i dont want to be a musician.. i beilieve every nepali teenager..sud read this..
ROBIN ON HIS OWN WORDS
Back in the Ghetto
I’ve lived in shit holes in Canada. One of them was in Seaton St. – a ghetto in Toronto with the junkies and the hookers and the streets kids. There was always a lot of activity in the neighbourhood - drug deals gone bad, hookers getting beaten up, I saw everything go down. At the same time I had a restaurant uptown in a pish-posh area. The two neighbourhoods were at such extremes.
There were drugs. Common’ I owned a nightclub. Drugs take you out of the realm of reality. You forget your fears, your insecurities. All of a sudden you respect the senseless world that surrounds you. But this is just an illusory respect. If you think about it, you started on the ‘trip’ to get away from the bs…. so it’s kind of idiotic to be ‘high’ and all of a sudden go “yeah it’s all coolâ€â€¦ Nothing has changed in the world. The only difference is that your brain is working under the influence of chemicals.
And I am glad I did it all. I pushed myself through some extremes but in the end I know myself, I know my capabilities. But not everybody can ride out a drug habit. The drugs take control so easily – you loose your soul. You can’t write, you can’t think, you’re addicted, you’re chemically dependant. But I don’t preach ‘Quit’. All I can suggest to those who genuinely want to, is – change your lifestyle, your friends, and your situation, change your state of mind and you will change your reality.
But that was an illusion. More and more often you hear Nepali kids saying, “my parent’s don’t understand meâ€. But that works the other way too. Kids don’t know their parents. Parents set themselves so far apart. And the older you get, the more you understand your parents are not NOT Gods. They’re not super-human like they want us to believe they are. They make commitments, mistakes – in fact many mistakes
http://www.wavemag.com.np/2003/april/cover_story.shtml more here at this link
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