| Sober people can avoid embarrassing situations at all | | | | Just like ever, people were quick to talk spitefully |
| costs while the drunkards or drug abusers invite | | | | amongst themselves and even wondered if they |
| them. | | | | were contributing money to buy him beer or honor |
| Similarly, those of us who would want to develop a | | | | the diseased last days. |
| strong sense of personal responsibility fight to grow | | | | I too did not quite understand why he acted this |
| psychologically while others look for scapegoats in | | | | way, but deep inside I told my self that probably, this |
| drugs and alcohol. | | | | extreme drinking was just a way of dealing with pain |
| All these are choices we make from the free chance | | | | other than shedding tears in front of all those |
| God has provided as with and end up influencing our | | | | strangers and friends. |
| lives and those of others positively or negatively. | | | | When people from the wider society are not happy |
| Talking of alcohol and embarrassment, an unpleasant | | | | that they offered their monetary help to an |
| incident I observed recently still lingers in my mind. | | | | irresponsible person as him, a lot of bad things follow. |
| A close friend of my family and me recently lost his | | | | This is why I feel that the societal judgment on |
| loving wife and as it is expected from the society, | | | | cases of drug abuse and alcohol addiction is not only |
| people came in large numbers to offer their emotional | | | | unfair but also very harsh. |
| and financial support. | | | | I am not saying that my friend was right to show |
| This man has always been a good drunkard, full of | | | | such disrespect during his wife's final moments, but I |
| fun to be with when high, but this was obviously a | | | | feel that a wise elderly man should have taken that |
| time when all of us expected him to postpone the | | | | opportunity to reason with him. |
| bottle till further notice. | | | | Surprisingly, he happens to be a man who can listen |
| See, he really was in dire need of cash donations, but | | | | attentively and with greater understanding and |
| the more people donated; the less he cared about | | | | patience, he would have acted differently then and |
| storming in the room where the prayer and burial | | | | reform in the future. |
| gathering were being held completely intoxicated. | | | | Now that he learnt what he did those nights from |
| You can imagine what the contributors of all this cash | | | | the same rumor that went far and wide and ending |
| thought about his ill habit, considering that he was | | | | in his own ears, his drinking problem is not getting any |
| really in need of help. | | | | better, considering that, the same society expects |
| It was truly a bad impression he created of him, but | | | | him to remarry soon. |
| this actually did not register as shameful anywhere in | | | | Is this not what many of us do? You know feeling |
| his conscious mind, as it did in ours. | | | | that, these addicts are too sinful, lost, irreparable, |
| This is what drug abuse and alcohol addiction does to | | | | irresponsible and useless for our status in life. |
| the victims, such that they would not give a hoot | | | | We are all in a long life journey, and some of us are |
| about morality or discipline. | | | | better equipped with the right psychological tools to |
| Rules of doing the right thing at the right time place | | | | survive the tough times whereas others are weak |
| and choosing the words to use or not to, seldom | | | | and need our unconditional support, like the alcohol |
| hang on their intoxicated minds. | | | | and drug abuse addicts! |