I have never abused my lungs with voluntary smoke nor my liver with sedative spirits, but I am in awe of how embedded in social life these two are, in so many cultures across the world. Their sale is legal and some governments even thrive on the revenue it generates for them. Drugs are on a completely different level, and while it wasn’t part of my society as I was growing up, it seems to have become either more prevalent or more visible because of being highlighted in movies and mainstream media.
I have never understood the glorified projection of a person’s prolificity in poisoning the air around them or bragworthiness in their increased capacity to consume inebriants.
Where I live currently, these habits are so normalised that I constantly stand out as an outlier. Strangely, it has also made me realise I have my own set of bad habits.
I will write about them another day, but for today, my main thought is that I have enough within me to fix before wondering about what's broken in others.
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