I'm sorry. I get twitchy on the topic. The number of lectures I've gotten on how I should just, you know, excercise more, or how I'm just fooling myself into needing drugs, or taking the easy way out (has anybody figured out why that is a bad thing) has made me hyper-sensitive.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "If I were in your shoes, I'd take a look at what that economy of scarcity was like for me, and how I could explore it ..." Could you explain further?