Decade Long Friendships

Will soon be a decade that I left home for higher studies. Met some of the best people life could have brought me across; they found me agreeable too, and we forged friendships that continue to date. There could have been so many filters ensuring that I would not meet them...but things happened...direct promotion to the second grade, not failing a grade, not taking a year off after 12th, deciding to write the entrance, and then another entrance, getting admissions there...etc etc...Hate the word serendipity (coz of that dud of a movie), but it is that, isn't it? If I hadn't met these guys, would have met some others, but the known scores over the unknown in this case.

If you're reading this you buggers, let's have a get-together! Some of you would have no hair, and some would have saggy boobs, but c'mon no one gives a damn! All I care about is meeting you coz there's no one else quite like you!!!

Addicted To Risks

I do not understand people with addictions. Would fully support them in getting rid of it, but without understanding. It's beyond reason to comprehend that one would continue doing something when one's aware (at least partly) of the repercussions. Carelessness. Laziness too? 

Now I know what a friend meant by saying, addictions are unethical. I was surprised then. Harmful yes, but unethical? That sounded like a new adjective. I get it now. It's unethical to not take care of yourself.

Every time a friend indulges in something potentially addictive, wanna punch them in the face and ask them to snap out of it. Puffing spirals of smoke, clinking glasses of liquor, blinking beady eyes in front of a computer, pressing heated up mobile phones against ears...these things have become so universal that they don't even seem to count.

Need to train myself how to tell people that all this is harmful, without sounding preachy. Or just learn to ignore.