“C’mon gal, it’s just the smoke and not dope.”
I was not at all heeding to what he said. I turned to the opposite side. He came to the other side. “Once won’t make you an addict.”
I still resisted and he persisted. “It’s nothing illegal lass, so many do it.”
I finally broke my silence, “Listen! Stop pestering me. If I have said a ‘no’ that means a NO! Get that!” and walked away.
I have heard about the goodness of this smoke. But I know it is injurious to health. Even the packet shows this statutory warning. Still for the so-called ecstasy of it, people don’t hesitate to inhale one. And that first time for many becomes like the continuation to a new phase, the addict phase.
However, this can or will never drive me to take a puff. I retort, detest all because I am a medico and have learnt and seen the aftereffects of this euphoria. At first it is awesome, but in the passing years it becomes a necessity and at last it becomes the reasons for death pretty early.
Self control… I can say… is the best medicine. When I said a no, I knew I won’t be able to experience this bliss. But I had borne in mind, long term; I’ll be satisfied to see myself healthy. Of course the first puff would not necessarily make me an addict. Still what if it had a chance to do so? People even start on drinks saying that one wouldn’t make them a tripper. And later they are the ones saying that it is a necessity now.
The first step, the first leg is where SELF CONTROL comes into feature. “I don’t want to do this.” When this is the decision, no one can stop you. When there are two paths taking you to the same place, usually one is easy though wrong and the other is tough but right. The easy one lures you like anything and the tough ones repels equally. You write your own destiny and take the path. When your mind speaks for you it would rarely be wrong. Still if we choose the wrong path, it is losing one’s belief on self.
Conducting self the way it should be the primary rather than the way things like it. At start what comes up is may be dissatisfaction but later in times it will be fantastic. Let no-one rule your thought process ever. Coz the SELF is how it is going to end ever in life.
