I think smokers and other "drug users" are both blessed and cursed, in this sense. Compared to the average person I deal with in the so-called real world, people here at the 'Hooka are generally more inclined to think, feel and reflect. Life moves them more, and they enjoy their substances both to enhance this, and to escape it.
I've had the interesting opportunity to move from one state to the other, in the sense of being overly emotionally reactive. I spent much of my life suffering from depression, only to later take medications that altered that emotional state; and I can tell you, the entire WORLD changes with our emotional states, our tendencies to react. I think most people really underestimate this truth. It really IS hard to understand what another is going through, unless you've gone through it yourself (this applies both ways).
The Rev