FAITHFUL ENEMY
“Smokers are liable to die young”. That is a boring
statement. The Federal Ministry of Health has rephrased it overtime, yet it
effected little or no change. After all we are all liable to die, both smokers
and non smokers. Forget about dying young or old, death comes when it will.
Moreover Mandela wasn’t young at the age of 95
when he died, yet he smoked his health into thin air.
I never
really fancied smoking until I tried marijuana. It was at a friend’s party;
everyone was getting high, and chilling in cloud nine. I couldn’t stand the
isolation and embarrassment of being the only mum’s boy in the midst, so I
accepted the bid. It was so sizzling at the first sip, but all I could remember
was waking the next morning by the roadside.
I don’t see
anything wrong in smoking, if you want to. But I see many things wrong in
smoking, because a friend smokes. I
didn’t taste weed because I knew what weed can do, or because I wanted to. I
tasted weed because friends were getting high, and I wouldn’t want to be left
alone lying low.
What amazed
me was that I smoked with friends that woke in a room the next morning, while I
woke by the roadside.
Sometimes it
is not a matter of “people are doing it” or “the way it’s been done”, what
matters is “are they doing the right thing?” and “how is it done?”
Never rely
your decisions on the influence of peer group; your decisions should be based
on your own judgment. We all have different routes in life. The one you call
your best friend might just be a Faithful
Enemy.
You can
smoke till you are Ninety or you can die of smoking at the age of Thirty. The
friend that took you to that night party might be the one to buy you a “Baby Powder” Nine months later, and then
send you her wedding invite a year later.
What goes
for one doesn’t go for all.
Augustus Bill
©2014
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