I have this friend, I've known him for 3-4 years. We werent close friends or anything, more like he was playing at the parties I was, we have a lot of friends in common and we got fucked up together. He then move to NY to study music engineering and got really heavy into drugs, Im not sure which ones, knowing him, probably all of them. Then I heard he was in rehab and now he's clean, I'm really happy for him, but he has changed sooooooo much, he's like a stranger now. it's hard to explain. I was in his myspace, listening to his new music, that has changed too a LOT, I like it better now, but now he has this whole different image and a whole new attitude, he used to be this super skinny guy and now he's all strong, so he has all this pictures without his shirt, and my reaction to it of course is... who are you? It's just sooooo sooo different and it's weird how the presence or th e lack of drugs can change a person so much I'm in no way saying that I want him to be the way he used to be, but that it gets time to get used to this new persona. Have any of you experienced the same thing with a friend?
i havent really but whenever one of my friends stop smoking they eventually stop hanging out all the people who do.
Whatever keeps him strong and off drugs man. It's the drugs that probably started the change in him in the first place, the brainwashing of rehab probably just completed it. At least he's no junky and will probably live a nice normal life. Good for him.
It has happened to me with two friends. Like the OP Im happy that they no longer have a problem with drugs, but it's so hard to relate to them, we now disagree in most of the things we talk about. Everything we used to find ridiculous and shallow, they now like and do, it's weird. I love them, of course. We have shared a lot, but sometimes it's really weird hanging out with them.
