Life is all about choice. What you becomes today is from the choices you made yesterday. What you will also become tomorrow depends on the choices you made today.
Some may say that it is Addiction and some may say that it is a disease. But which ever way we see it I want us to know that it all starts from the things we decide to do with our lives. Wether it ends up as a disease or addiction we started it in the first place. I also believe that all of these is what we can avoid if we decide, but if we choose to go with it and it turns to be something we can't control tomorrow or something that is capable of killing us.
CHOICES
let's look at this aspect first. I had this neighbor who passed away two weeks back because of a disease that took his life. When it happened so many people blamed the disease for coming to kill an innocent man who still have alot to achieve in life. When I heard them I laughed because most of us very close to him knows the genesis of that disease. He started drinking from when he was a teen. He kept drinking until he grew up and got married. People talked against his habit of drinking but it all fail on deaf ears. After having his third child he became very sick and went to different hospitals, all the hospitals he went to pointed out that he has damage some of his internal organs with strong drink. There was no cure and everyone blamed the devil for attacking him with such an incurable disease. He died few weeks later and was burial. His wife was left a widow with three little kids to care for.
It was addiction first, then a deadly disease followed. Some people will tell you that it doesn't matter, I know what I am doing. But it matters alot. People need to watch what they eat or else it will become a dangerous disease that will end their lives.
SMOKE
What about smokers? They start it from little and later and up becoming addicted to it. Most of them die of diseases from this smoking and up till today people are not ready to learn their lessons.
HOW SHOULD I REACT TO IT OR QUITE?
I believe that we can learn from what has happened to others. Someone may say that it is easy for me to say that I will quite because I don't drink. That is not the case. When I noticed that what I take has killed alot of people I believe that it is time to say goodbye to it. I know that when people get addicted to something is not easy to stop. I can also get a therapist who will help me out of that habit so that I can live longer.
This is my own view on the last topic for week 192. Choice or Addiction?