Health Is Wealth
When I read today’s announcement topic I burst into laughter. And this was because the topic was about alcohol. I tried to think about any experience I had with alcohol but I couldn’t recall any. I could even say I don't know the taste of alcohol or have ever held a bottle of alcohol in my life.
But what if I decided to stay off alcohol can I also avoid everyone who takes alcohol too? That's kinda inevitable in some instances. Though I try my best to avoid them.
To my reasoning, I don't think taking alcohol is so endangering to that extent, only if taken moderately. But excess of it is what people do to abuse alcohol. There are times when doctors would even recommend some particular dosage of alcohol for treatment against some disease or illness.
Even anything one takes in excess would not come to benefit the system anymore but rather become an abuse. When you talk too much, instead of people listening to you, they would avoid your speech, because they have realized that there is no use wasting their time listening to you.
Is someone drinking a half-crate of alcohol? Why? 😂. And you expect that person to act normal? No no no! That's not possible.
I visited my brother’s residence a few months ago. He had told me about a man who lived in the same apartment with him but in a different room. He is a drunkard. On days when he doesn’t have money to buy alcohol, he would act normal and fine, but if he mistakenly has some funds for it, then he won't be himself that day.
So I was with my brother in his room and since I was around, we didn’t lock the door on time. This man came around and got inside his room. I wondered how he knew his way to his room. My brother said there were times he would head towards his room and start banging the door.
As we realized he was around, my brother asked me to lock the door immediately, which I did. Then after a few hours, he opened the door and came directly to our door as expected. He struggled to open the door. And then the next thing I realized was he faced the next door and started urinating on the floor.
What has tampered with an elderly man’s brain? I wondered. That was so disappointing and disgusting. At times he would move out naked without any clothes on. And all of his body would reek of alcohol.
I have seen some people take moderate amounts of alcohol and still have their normal self, some won't even want you to know they took alcohol. And some don't even care.
A hostel mate of mine, while I was in the university who was so eager to take alcohol one day, followed some guys to the club to party. I guessed his first time drinking got him drunk and crazy. He couldn’t stand on his own again.
Some guys had to drag him back home and then throw him on his bed. After throwing him, he didn’t even know what was going on. He vomited on himself and still slept on it. So irritating.
Everything in life has its advantages, but when we tend to abuse it and have it in excess most times it turns out to be destructive and leaves negative impacts on us.
This is my response to the HIVE LEARNERS weekly prompt in hive learners community for the Week 129 Edition 2 and the topic to be discussed is IN A DRUNKEN STATE
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