Today, I would like to send a message to all my friends out there regarding a very serious social issue and am putting this message up just because I happened to hear about it very recently from my dad. Okay, I will share it here with all of you. My dad is one who travels by train to and from his office daily. So on Friday, while traveling from office back home, he happened to witness a strange incident. Some of you may have witnessed such incidents. For some people, it may be a very common thing, but in these parts, this is a very rare or you can say it is hardly a scene that happens in public. Dad happened to be traveling with a drug addict and that too by his description, a girl of my age, ya, a 25 or 26-year-old. She was a really good looking girl, was doped when he saw her but she was speaking clearly in good English and also in Hindi and when people asked her where she was from, she said she was coming back from a rehabilitation center. Her dad and mom seems to be out of India and she is studying somewhere in Bhopal. I used to think that these things happen only in movies but something like that happening to a girl in our community was really horrifying. She was actually a native of our God's own country...
Let me tell you exactly what happened. After telling all this to the people who asked her whereabouts, she went to a guy who was a Tamilian sitting nearby who looked like a thug. Dad was so astonished because this girl was traveling alone and he was sure she was seeing this guy for the first time in her life. She told the guy to come with her for a puff. He was surprised but went with her and shared one or two puffs with her and then came back to his seat. Suddenly, to everybody's surprise, the girl fell down and hit her head on the side wall just after smoking this doped cigarette. She jumped up straight after falling and started mumbling some lame excuse that she had 'fits' but everybody around her knew that she was lying and trying to hide her habit. Then she asked the people sitting there where her seat number was and when they told her she went off to her far off seat in the next compartment.
But after sometime, to everybody's surprise, she came back and called this same man again to come with her. Just imagine a girl like that calling such thugs to give her company. This man was willing to go but his friends warned him that he might get into trouble, so he said 'no' to the girl and it seems she went off to search another partner. According to what dad saw, the girl was very much in her senses even if she was doped but at times her consciousness was gettng shadowed because she was opening her bag, searching for something, then closing it again, then again opening, a sign of restlessness could be seen in her. Her lips showed white patches due to long term cigarette use. Dad was so much upset when he reached home. It was like he couldn't take her out of his mind. But, he was helpless.
I don't know why people are destroying their life in the hands of dope. Why smoke? Why drink? Why get doped? There are crores of people on earth who suffer because they are blind, they are deaf, they are invalid, they have no hands, no legs, such incapacities which we can't even imagine about. There are so many who are diseased with cancers, HIV, and many such serious illnesses. When we are blessed with everything, we don't value anything. We sell it to these dangerous substances which take off our senses, and finally our life. Why should we do this when we have so many good things to perceive around us?Why lose our senses to such poisonous products? Really, I don't get it. Please someone tell me why you enjoy doing it if you are still doing it.
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