Guest Cow Blog: Chills, Thrills and Popping Pills!

Define the word normal? What is normal? Who is normal? Do we even know what normal is? I bet you the Pharmaceutical companies know, but they try and sell us their version of normal, because what we perceive to be normal may not be as normal as originally anticipated? My version of normal may differ vastly from that of the next person and the billionaires in the ivory towers love cashing in on the ambivalence!

They say that every person on the planet pops at least one pill a day. Whether it be aspirin, ARV's, birth control, life-saving cardiovascular drugs or even laxatives. That’s an astounding 6.6 billion pills a day! There's pills that help you sleep, pills that keep you awake. Pills that prevent pregnancy and pills that boost fertility. Pills for constipation and pills for diarrhea, pills to make your heart beat faster, pills to make your heartbeat slower. Pills that suppress the appetite and pills that make you hungry. Pills to make you lose weight and pills that make you gain weight. Uppers, downers, energisers, happy pills, where does it end? While there's pills that make you happy when you're too sad, why is it that when you're just a little bit too happy, you get shipped off to the funny farm in vintage white extra length sleeves?

Pills have turned the world into sissies! Have a headache? Deal with it! It does go away eventually. Got the sniffles? Have a tissue for your issues! Highschool slut scared of falling pregnant? Keep your knickers on! Surely if all the crybabies just toughen up a bit, there would be a little bit more normality going around. Think about it, I mean really think about it. Do we really know the people around us and more importantly, do we know who we are underneath all the chemicals? Now there's a thought...

What would happen if we took the entire planet off their meds for just one day? I'm not talking about life saving medication, the kind that if you miss a dose you'd drop dead. I'm talking about those that keep us in an ever unconscious state of "normal"? What if all the suburban housewives stopped taking their prozac and xanax? having a good old bitch fit at hubby might be just what the doctor ordered to sort him out! How about we take the bipolars off their lithium and let them ride their rollercoasters (now that would make life interesting). Ever think there's a reason why certain people just shouldn't procreate? Especially some of our trailer park friends in Brakpan! Maybe if people stopped stuffing their bodies with crap they wouldn't need Brooklax or Imodium. Instead of taking sleeping tablets, try stay awake for a few days, now there's a buzz unlike any other! And maybe, just maybe, Hugh Hefner should lay off the Viagra. No one else at his age still bangs pinups! It's just not NORMAL!

So as I take my daily dose of Rivotril and Aropax and ponder a world without medication, I shall leave you with the wise words of Karen Walker..."And there I was, thinking SPEED was a feel-good movie about amphetamines...”

Miss Jones