on changing

I used to be the funny guy, cracking jokes all the time and doing stupid shit

I used to enjoy the attention of course.

but since ive become a stoner i barely ever do that sort of thing anymore, like, i love being funny but i dont go out of my way like i used to, i dont really care about being the comedian

I just find that i can humour myself and my closer friends fine, and thats all thats needed. but i have, overall, become more introverted since smoking weed, as many people do

once.. i would have never wanted to sit alone while people were talking nearby. but now i am content. I find lots of people just pointless to communicate to as well.

i just want to sit and have un-bounded conversation with another mind, not put up with the social direction that most societies use. where before, I jumped at almost any opportunity to socialise and communicate.

where i used to enjoy attention and social energy more over respect and integrity of communication, and now its shifted over to the other direction (though obviosuly not to the extreme)

some people find it wierd often when i spontaneously bring up one of lifes many questions and try and discuss it. i now judge many people now less on how well the communicate or what their ideas are, and focus more on their ability to see all sides of a discussion or arguement genuinely or be willing to share their honest ideas and oppinions, whatever they may be.

some people say im boring now... or lame.. and even dumb! i get frustrated, but generally come out the winner in the end, so im content. content with their contempt is how i like to think of it

has this sort of thing happened to any of you, or any people you know, after theyve become a stoner? or after any other life realisation? or simply after growing up? what changed?

 

Ok where to start weed has changed me in so many ways.

 

I started smokeing at age 14 and i just turned 16 like 2 monthes ago. I started smoking everyday at 15. I think before i started smoking alot i was immature and just tryed to be funny and shit to get attention. I grew up alot since i started smokeing and know im just more relaxed around all my friends and people. I also grew up because i gained respect for my parents. I was never a problem child but i think since i started smokeing i realized my parents arent perfect and they do do shit that pisses me off but i learned to just respect it and know they only want the best for me. Another way it changed me is know when im around the ladys i can be alot more confident and im haveing alot better luck know since i started smokeing so thats defently a plus. I think the last way weed changed me was the withdrawal symptoms from a summer of smokeing left me with no appetite and i lost almost 20 pounds since then which is another plus.

 

lol bill, thats the exact way i've become through weed too. EXACTLY

 

oh nooo i dont want it 2 change me..i like always being hyper and making lame jokes!!!

 

its made me a lot calmer. im still fun and funny but i think im just more mellow

 

It gave me confidence that carries over to my non stoned life.

 

Interestingly enough, a lot of the changes people tend to mention are just the changes of maturity. It's not the weed, its the fact that you went from early teenage mentality to later teen/young adult mentality. Pretty much everyone comes to understand their parents are doing the best they can, but are faulted, weed or not. Stuff like that is just part of growing older.

My main changes have been in my spiritual outlook, weed helped me find a happy medium between dogmatic religion and pure atheism by opening up my mind to honest, simple spirituality. I say it helped, it wasn't the only thing, but a pretty important one, in my mind.

 

im not really the jokester in our group but im definetley the one who always says the funny stupid shit. its not really to get attention its just cucz im so baked i dunt know what comin out of my own mouth. i think major changes to ones personality could not happen because of weed but because of growing up like brandon said. Addictive drugs are known to change personality because of that addiction but because weed is almost harmless i dont think its really affecting the situation. I think you went through a mental growth spurt, just like getting taller or facial hair except you jsut became more mature.

 

Hmm, i havent changed a whole lot. Generally im now alot more kind then i was before, more calm, mellow. The biggest change however is that i recognized how wonderful it is playing a musical instrument, and made me a better player because i played more often that i ever did before.

 

Ever since i seriously started smoking ive become the very laid back person. Plus, ive made a lot of new friends. PLus I know my personality had changed because im so mellow most of the time.

 

I think I've become a lot more chill then I used to be. I feel like I've been seeing things in a different way then some other people. Over the past 8 months or so I've just been smoking by myself....and in that time I've become more in touch with my feelings and my life. Now if I can only translate that to being more productive

 

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well, i think it has got to do with weed for me, weed kicks my ego in the nads. IT was like.. a direct change in the way i look at the world over the last 10 months or wahtever its been. not even a year!

ive monitored my maturity growing and its like been steady growth in some areas, and im pretty sure id be a very differnetperson if i had never got into weed

 

I have changed Insanly in the couple years I have been smokeing, I used to be extremly shy, but around my friend I would say things that made them fall over and they couldnt stop laughing. Im still funny to alot of my friends just alot more laid back and as you said in your post in pretty much all of it, im more open minded to everyones thoughts and just about everything you have said has happened to me too.