This is my first blog so bear the pain..
Wearing a Cisco hoody, earphones plugged-in, listening to fever 104, and beautiful voice of richa for almost an hour, I came accross a smart guy in santro car lighting up his cigarette, and 2 steps later a super-thin man on bicycle all ready to intake the tabacoo. I strangely felt something, and a question popped up in my mind what has led these people to this addiction, what is that they share?
I inquired myself and felt to great surprise that the reason is all the same as why i'm walking on these roads aimlessly for hours. Only thing's different is what they chose was not walking but cigarette or tobacco. I didn't believe it at first and then i started pounding my head for answers and what i found out was the same.
The reason a person grows an addiction is becuase it becomes a habit that he grows at the times he doesn't know what to do. See around you and look at people you know are addicted to anything, they'll show you, it all started at times they were confused/depressed, they seek alone time and in ths alone time they seek a different friend i.e. some way to keep up with oneself, and at last everyone finds it at one place or the other, e.g. taking cigarettes as excuse to stay up late at nights.
And as it is found one like the company of the new friend to the fullest and not the real people, and there is the root, he has become an addict. And when you come out of the hard time its very late, you are already addictive.
So thinking it through i realised do i share something with them? I think i do, not with them but i share the some part of feeling they've been through, things that have come to make them stand alone there lighting cigarettes,and m i going on the same path sitting alone in room listning music, lying on bed for hours, or just taking a walk aimessly that converts to hours before you realise?
I don't know what's the answer to this problem, but when i see it i see that atleast i'm not following the same path as others have grown to be addicted of ,and i can only give here one advice to myself and my friends- whenever there is a problem don't seek for friend that kill yo,u but choose to fight the situation and try not to be alone, and even if you are do things that doesn't make you an addict , but that build you.
good work Hj!!!:)
ReplyDeletegr8 blog as a rookie... :)
ReplyDeleteMost people take to cigarettes during their college days, a period which they describe as the best days of their lives. Most don't smoke because they are depressed and have nothing else to do, they do it because they somehow think that this is what they are supposed to do at their age. Those who take their first puff aren't confused about their paths in life, but just want to see what the hype is all about.
ReplyDeletei also asked myself the same question, but my friend the first puff in your life or all the puffs in your life doesn't make u an addict. When you look up and see that you can drink 10 days continously in parties and so but on the 11th day you'll not, that's when you come to sense but when there is pressure on a person these sences doesn't work that well and he doesn't know when to stop.
DeleteCigarettes are biologically addictive, so by the time people realize they should quit, they are already too late. There is a need for smokers to smoke one more, even if they themselves want to quit it. That is why many people resort to substitutes like nicotine gums and nicotine patches, so that they don't feel the urge to smoke when they are trying to quit.
DeleteAs for the peer pressure, I agree that it may lead a person to start his smoking habit, but it is not necessary to continue it. Millions and millions of people change jobs, cities and friends everyday but they cannot leave their smoking habit behind. Even when alone, they feel the need to smoke, and that is what addiction is!