For a better comprehension of the post ahead, readers need to acknowledge the fact that I neither smoke nor drink. In this post, I would be talking about smokers in particular and drinkers in general.
Gone are the days when one used to value the importance of austerity in life and even thought of being a teetotaler. When I entered my first year in college, I too recognized the fact that youths love enjoying life without feeling any ethical reservations. But, anyways, respect of individuality is what I appreciate and follow. Infact many a times, I myself encourage my friends to drink/smoke to enjoy the limited valuable years of bachelor life and bust the sullen ambience surrounding one’s aura
But anyways, appropriate reciprocating response is always absent as is expected by persons similar to me. Just mentioning them in brief:
- Smokers never give a damn to the fact that their smoking is passive smoking for others. Many a times they pretend as if they care but that is mostly due to the market value of the person concerned and in long run, the real face gets often revealed. Worst scenario arises when the smoker is your roomie’s friend. In this particular case, he won’t even inquire regarding your personal choices and inconveniences.
- Greatest emotional attyachar is when you go to some place and they offer to have some sweet/paan/soft drink etc together which you deny due to various reasons. Instantly they would also say no their whim. This solidarity pledge often sounds ridiculous. When you had to drink/smoke, you left us all and did merry making/partying with your similar friends and didn’t give a shit to the fact that I am alone, but now all of a sudden, this momentary expression of love sounds confusing.
- Smokers/drinkers would always pretend that they have finally got some elixir and now they are having best of their time in some self imagined heaven and treat the non-smokers as sullen beings fed up with their lives. God knows why the hell they feel that they are the only gifted and the happy lads.
Personally I have also seen that smokers have a restricted gamut while selecting friends, they always look for friends with similar interests. While a non- smoker is always open to friends of any type. Hence, I have experienced that smoking habits block you from getting fresh friends and ideas
I hope my friends with similar interests would be having pretty similar experiences
My head bows for them and all the resident respect in my heart emanates for those only who manage to keep the values taught by their parents alive, in this naked professional world. They are the real fighters of adversities in lifeP.S. This is my first unedited post
10 comments:
Shutup
I do smoke but i have great friends
who have never ever smoked in their life.So this is a shit out of your mind.
You are a fanatic.
I respect your thoughts
I would restrain myself from making any personal comment, though I know many such instances
there is acharm in self destruction... a complete dark side. An abyss but our curiosity makes us explorer of unknown fathoms. Smoking, Drinking and drugs all come in this way... morals & virtues are personal, not public.
couldnt get your point
Are you saying that I shouldn't have gone public?
Well I wish to clear this to all friends that i have just tried to explain the feelings of non smokers. their feelings needed a stage.
I was just making point that nobody cares for anybody if their convenience is affected. Non smokers can't run anywhere, they have to push smokers towards non smoking with valid reason as back up. They need just a support and a ciggaratte is giving instead of friend or any intimate buddy... Thats it. Demonstartions at stage make you their anti, not the helping hand to recover..
Nice point bhaiya
But as said, I just wanted to state the POV of non smokers and this post in particular wasn't intended to harm anyone's sentiments
I just felt that non smokers need to be supported
hahaha....... you edited it finally........ by adding another thought.....
"Be a rebel". I will begin my comment with this famous line in one famous song from 'rang de basanti'.
I am a smoker and a drinker too. But i come from same cultural set-up as yours-- Lucknow and Varansi combination, and know that we are discouraged to try them ever. i was and I am as sincere in my thoughts as your surely are(maybe little less) but sometime i decided to pratice one old moral science lesson : don't criticise the apples from China before you have tasted them.
Now being of a scientific thinking background, Mayank, tell me:
a) what is so good in smoking and drinking that makes it a habit-forming?
b) HOw much of book-read knowledge you have on these habbits? Delerium? Deliquiscent?
c) Legal aspects on public smoking? Ethical approach on what can be imposed on person which he choices no to -- like the choice of a non-smoker of not smopking in a given place to be imposed on a smoker person?
d) What's moking in essence and how deeply it is known to cause troubles? and how serious?
e) and how many other such causes are known and what has been done about them?!?
To give my answers:
a)Dopamine effect (a psychological phenomenon is triggered. tell your ignorant friends that this psychological need is as good as craving to have water, or food, or sex, when thirsty, hungry or horny. Mechanical Engg boys, u all, have short visions on all other subjetc, and with that mind to do dream to do good your country?! Wake up and keep all round knowledge. (sorry but beging little harsh._)
b)Mild smoking and drinking do NOT make you habitual. I consume these in good count, but as i write these the last ciggerete i smoked was on 28th Feb and the last drink i had was in first week of Feb'10 !! Delirium is mild happiness, on stage of drining, Alcoholism is one stage which most you ignorant people identify drinking habbit with, in which the person becomes violent or so complusive that he beats up his wife and leaves his small children hungey to buy himself alcohol.
Mild drinking is known to be good to health and esp heart. There is hardly any ban on drinking in any developed, wisdom-filled society. Read more books and matter to be a good person and a judge/decision-maker later in ur professional life.
c)In europe, smoking is banned in all public places and people actually follow it, although it doesnt mean that smoking is discouraged over there.! they all still smoke , perhaps sma e as before, albeit in open road. And those same smokers will deny you smoking permission when u would do them in public place! Getting the ethics of what can be imposed on a person which is distinctly a matter of personal choice, not strictly reslved by law.?! Mayank, this is very important philisophy which will lead you to Objectivism, aka Nirmoh (in Bhagvad Geeta) and make you a good decison maker for the corporates.
d)Smoking is a personal pleasure or maybe a need. U cannot deny this to a person who needs it. It is statistically known to cause cancer, but so do the smoke from your bike or your car ! And many smokers are still known to live for over 100 years, or suitably long enough by some self-chosen, or statistically obtained average age!
e) We are acting too strict against smoking or drinking due to temperance or religion-driven zeal, very likely. Think.
In europe all chemical substances are being discouraged from personal use as they are known to be the real cause for body trouble. So people are switiching over from ciggerets to Biddis ( !!!) as biddis are chemical-free and naturals ! nice, na.?
Have fun and enjoy. :-)
My Friend Manish, Thanks for commenting at my blog
First of all, I havent commented at the ethics of smoking. kindly go through the line whefre i have mentioned that i myself encourage my friends to drink or smoke
i have only brought out the insensible behavior of smokers towards non smokers. I have only tried to lend a voice to the non smokers in the young generation as i have seen tht in young generation , guys take these things as style statement and treat the others as shit. It was necessary on my part to make non smokers and non drinkers feel proud and need not feel ashamed of the not-so-happening life they live
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