ADDICTION

It was a lazy afternoon and the class of journalism where our professor screened us a movie on drug addiction named “Requiem of Dream” in which the protagonist is addicted to drugs and to what extent he goes to buy them off and how he himself becomes a drug peddler. How his girlfriend resorts to some really unhealthy ways to obtain money. His mother who is a tv addict for a show and she is addicted to the slimming pills and how she lands up in the lunatic asylum. The movie shows how the protagonist his highs and lows as drug addict and peddler and how his life is devastated by series of unfortunate events.

Every year thousands of lives are gulped down by drugs that induce youngster by offering the tranquillity experience of taking them away from the world of reality to the world of wonderland. All thanks to the words like cocaine, weed, hashish, heroin, LSD, acid and etc might be words for us but these might mean a world to someone. What really amuses me is the vulnerability of human beings?

A person like me may say I am not addicted to anything but if you go to see we all are addicts, aren’t we? For example addiction to television, drinking tea/ coffee constantly, over eating when depressed, chocolate / sweet, the thought of starving to be slim, drinking Benadryl, the excessive masturbating, sex addict, to sniffing on to whitener or any petroleum products, to iodex sandwiches, to being obsessed to social networking sites and etc. After looking at the above mentioned list of the domestic addictive substances now do you really think we are not druggies who may be addicted to some or the other sort of substances? Yes we are addicts but the only thing which distinguishes us is that our addictions are more publicly acceptable because they do not fall under the legal sector and the definition of “threat to our life” consuming of such substance won’t pose a menace to their life.