To drink or not to drink?
I don't understand what's wrong in drinking?
Well, I am not saying it is good to get drunk, loose your senses, get out-of-control and misbehave. I am not saying it is good to get addicted to it and spend all your money on it. I am just asking what's wrong if you are a social drinker? What's wrong in having a drink now and then?
If it is all about personal health, then isn't having cold drinks(the soda ones) as bad as that? Doesn't standing in a traffic as harmful as that? Isn't it even harmful to sleep late in the night? Or, wake-up late in the morning?
If it is about committing a crime, then isn't lying a crime? Isn't trying to show somebody down a crime? Isn't praying to God just for your own welfare a crime?
I think it is more of a taboo. We have been told since kids that people who drink are bad. And, that has been into our minds that whoever drinks(even occasionally) is a bad person. Only bad people drink!
(People, I am not saying that drinking is not harmful to health. It is. I am just saying that whether a person drinks or not need not determine his character!)
Well, I am not saying it is good to get drunk, loose your senses, get out-of-control and misbehave. I am not saying it is good to get addicted to it and spend all your money on it. I am just asking what's wrong if you are a social drinker? What's wrong in having a drink now and then?
If it is all about personal health, then isn't having cold drinks(the soda ones) as bad as that? Doesn't standing in a traffic as harmful as that? Isn't it even harmful to sleep late in the night? Or, wake-up late in the morning?
If it is about committing a crime, then isn't lying a crime? Isn't trying to show somebody down a crime? Isn't praying to God just for your own welfare a crime?
I think it is more of a taboo. We have been told since kids that people who drink are bad. And, that has been into our minds that whoever drinks(even occasionally) is a bad person. Only bad people drink!
(People, I am not saying that drinking is not harmful to health. It is. I am just saying that whether a person drinks or not need not determine his character!)
posted by Vijay Gandhi @ 1:03 am
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3 Comments:
Hmm... now I know what you meant by "Enjoying every moment of life"!!
Jokes apart, I appreciate your line of thoughts. These days, drinking Coke-Pepsi is as harmful to us as a liquor. But how many are not taking these aerated chemicals? There are many and that is up to the individual! I would rather say a person who smokes is more cruel than that who drinks. A smoker harms all the others around him along with himself, but a drinker just harms himself.
When they say "drinking is harmful", can there be a deeper meaning. Consider a drunkard, as seen in movies (atleast I consider myself fortunate enough not to witness such people in real life). He stays in intoxication all day. He has no purpose, no use for others, no responsibilities... he becomes a burden and then turns a nuisance to his family and the society atlast. First he cannot take care of his family/ social duties; second, he cannot take care of himself. His addiction to intoxication is so much that the moment he comes out of this, he has no time to think of anything but the ways and means to land up back in the same state.
And this is why I think it's much hyped about. Hence it is a social evil. Hence people lookdown upon a person who drinks... DRINKS!
Hi DD,
How many rounds did u go in for before u wrote this ?
-Skely
"rounds" are for drunkards like you, skely :)
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