...Pensieve...

“C’mon gal, it’s just the smoke and not dope.” I was not at all heeding to what he said. I turned to the opposite side. He came to the other side. “Once won’t make you an addict.” I still resisted and he persisted. “It’s nothing illegal lass, so many do it.” I finally broke my silence, “Listen! Stop pestering me. If I have said a ‘no’ that means a NO! Get that!” and walked away. I have heard about the goodness of this smoke. But I know it is injurious to health. Even the packet shows this statutory warning. Still for the so-called ecstasy of it, people don’t hesitate to inhale one. And that first time for many becomes like the continuation to a new phase, the addict phase. However, this can or will never drive me to take a puff. I retort, detest all because I am a medico and have learnt and seen the aftereffects of this euphoria. At first it is awesome, but in the passing years it becomes a necessity and at last it becomes the reasons for death pretty early.