The minute I learnt this it stunned me. If it is not you who is using or smoking it, very high chances that the person next to you is.
I was at a friend's house a few weeks earlier. I was invited over just to give him my thoughts on a new religious cd he had just bought. I went over and met another friend who is in his 20's, newly wed, who happened to be there. We watched the cd for an hour before I asked him to just put it to a halt. I told him what I thought of - of the cd and the discussion went on just like one and a half hour or so. We spoke of other things then and suddenly he brought over a little packet with some dried weeds inside it. It's that stuff, yes, ganja. He asked me if I smoked ganja, I said no. Of course I don't.
Well, both of them went on ahead, preparing the stuff. They took out the tobaccco from one ciggarette and starting mixing the weeds into it. After that, they put the mixture back into the empty ciggarette roll and started smoking. I just sat there and watched. There were 1001 thoughts passing through my head and it was almost 3.00 am. while his kid and wife were sleeping. It all took place at his very home, for God's sake.
I watched both of them who seemed very religious a little while ago now doing drugs. Well, I thought its human afterall. But where were our senses?
He started speaking, as he got 'stoned' I guess. He said that ganja is good. It makes him feel relaxed, and forget all his worries. He said that he would smoke even before playing football. In fact, it is a guarantee that he will be in his top form.
I noticed that before the beginning of every football match, he would wear his sun glasses. At that time I couldn't help noticing that he suddenly had a stronger personality. Talks louder, more serious and very active. But I would just ignore all that until I put it all together with what I learnt that night.
He is one of my few close friends. I was sad with what I found out.
As I shared the story with my nephew, I learnt of an even more disturbing news. There are more than the 2 of them who took drugs in our team. We counted that there are 7 of them, out of eleven. This is very disturbing.
Afterall, if one does it at the private of his home, who is going to find out? How their families are affected by it, it will become just another internal affair.
But as for many of us, the question to ask is, what in our lives that is so tough and challenging that require us to take substances sort of to cool down and relax. Human therefore cannot be said as a perfect creature just yet since what is lacking is an internal mechanism to could bring our minds to a calm, relaxed state. Never mind Yoga that so many cannot afford to join.
The guy is like the manager of our team. To me, it all seemed very obvious that he will be sort of under influence of drugs every time we met, whether for fun, meeting, barbecue or sports. He is a pretty good manager though. Team's pretty much together and we played many matches, except for 2 things. There is always a fight among our team members where he seemed to be the cause, and the fees we paid every month, he took it as his. He is not trust-worthy as far as money is concerned.
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