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By Gabriel Dinda, School of
Economics
Take a walk around the
periphery of our campuses and higher learning institutions, you will quickly
develop a viable business idea. A realistic
opportunity indeed! Certainly, it won’t be an idea on bookstore, but
undoubtedly an idea on a bar or an entertainment joint-‘for enjoying life.
’Enjoying life’ is the word; a word whose meaning has confused a number and its
definition narrowed down to limits of truce and unbecoming activities. Everyone
will find difficulty in digesting such meanings and a little research into this
is therefore necessary.
The world turbines at a
furious rate and that has not speared change in vocabulary either. Taking a lot
of alcohol, sleeping everywhere in trenches, emitting dozens of smoke to the air and injecting litres of hard drugs to our
already crowded veins have literally
taken over the definition of ‘enjoying life’ .Involving in such
activities makes one trendy, fashionable and modern.
Honestly, where is the
sense in enjoying life in exposing your health to permanent doom with uncertain
fortunes with no gain but lots of pain? Why are we so reluctant to learn from
people who have thrown their lives to grave or have taken their lives to dangerous zones as a result
of drugs? Do we admire the celebrities who pride themselves of addiction and
filthy life? (No one talked of Whitney Houston)Do we admire the people who have
given up on family responsibilities to give their best to drugs? Trust me you
will walk a thousand homesteads in Ngamia One in Turkana asking for the
advantages of drug abuse, but you will
get the same answer-NONE. Not because Kenyans have weak academic credentials
but simply because there is none. Our people suffer from delusions and
illusions that drugs have some hidden ‘benefits’ but at our right mind,
everyone knows that drug abuse is a mere death trap and an obstacle to our
goals
It will do you no good to
gravitate your efforts in the outlawed substances as your peers are busy making
a kill out of their talents and fine tuning their CVs to flag off their
lifetime dreams. Travel the less traveled road by making an individual decision
to take advantage of the counseling services offered by NACADA or any other
counseling office and detach from drugs forthwith. How will this piece of
writing help that lad in Mtwapa currently injecting drugs and planning on how to
evade a property to enable him get the next puff? Everyone has a duty to play.
There is much to do but less has been done. Be proud when you influence that
one person in your neighborhood to make a mental shift and turn away from
drugs. If everyone swept their door, the whole world will be swept at the end
of the day. Every little contribution is necessary and despite the barrage of
criticism such courses are exposed to, positive impact is inevitable.
I would not choose drug
abuse if choice existed, because it’s not a bright idea.
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