Today, I am going to take you down the roller-coaster ride Linda’s life, an ordinary teenager misunderstood by her family and labeled as a troublesome teen, ready to fight even in the slightest provocation.
Linda, being an unexpectedly bright student slackened in her studies due to the way she was treated at home.
Watching other teenagers drink made her envious. She belonged to a very conservative family where boy-girl relationships were not considered signs of an honorable person. She tried to make her mother understand, understand the way she was feeling, but when she started off, her mother shooed her away talking about some work she had to do and even if she listened, she just laughed it off. Same was the case with her elder sister…It made her jealous when her elder sister told everything to their mother so she began to withdraw from her family and friends. She started hanging out with the wrong crowd without realizing what she had gotten herself into...She started taking drugs and even started smoking. Nowadays, drinking sheesha is in vogue, so she started drinking sheesha as well.
For sometime, she felt very happy by the twist her life had taken but after a couple of years, she started suffering from violent coughing. Her parents had already given up on her to change but when the coughs worsened; her mother took her to the doctor. There, she came to know that she had lung cancer and that it had reached the last stage. Any chances of recovery were gone…This came as a big shock to her. She was devastated! All this seemed like a very bad dream, but she couldn't do anything now. She didn't want to die a painful death so she committed suicide, leaving behind a note for her mother saying: If only you tried to understand…”
Dear Readers, the fate of Linda is the fate of hundreds and thousands of teenagers round the globe and has already been. If it is not treated at once, it might be too late…
Drinking sheesha only once is equal to about a 100 cigarettes, when 20 cigarettes a day takes away 3 years and 10 months of our lives, then you can do the math yourself and see that how much you are keeping at stake just by drinking it once. Besides, although it seems quite cool and lavish, we don’t look cool at all after drinking it…Life is too short to waste away by doing things which do not give but only take…take our lives…
"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs,alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort." says Jean Cocteau. And I heartily agree.
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