Cigarette in One Hand, Bottle in the Other, Watching the VLT Spin....

Smoking, Drinking, and Gambling. The three modern crutches of someone dying on the inside. Let's examine them a little closer.

Smoking (well, cigarettes and drugs in general). It starts so innocently. A friend is there feeding their habit, and offer you a chance. Badda bing badda boom you caught the habit. A craving for a little stick of paper and tobacco. You want it when you don't have it, and when you have it you want more. What a damn shame.

From what I hear the high isn't all that great either, but it's the craving that keeps you coming back. A longing for a chemical that snaps onto your brain and humps your endorphin stimulator. Hooked for life with a craving due to a split second of curiosity and a bad decision. What a damn shame.

And then there's booze. Now, I must warn you, I have a serious personal problem with alcohol. Vile vile substance. Unfortunately, I live in a small town in which the favoured pastime is getting drunk. But let's examine that. Alcohol is rot, it's poison formed from artificially ages fruits and plants. If contaminates your bloodstream and flows to your brain. Once there is fucks about up there until you slowly lose common sense, complex thought, then sooner or later, consciousness. I must say that's quite disgusting.

And to think, people long all week for the opportunity to do this to themselves. To get "fucking smashed" and whatnot. It makes me want to puke. And not to mention all the deaths from drunk driving and alcohol poisoning.

Then there is gambling. The will to throw away all your hard earned money for the slight chance of winning it back. Honestly, this is the only of the three that slightly appeals to me, but that's because I'm a math guy and I love calculating odds. Oddly enough though I don't think people gamble for that same reason. It's part greed and part thrill seek. I'm not sure more of which, probably greed. It's really unfortunate that so many people expect to win the lottery for their retirement.

At least people don't kill themselves over gambling, just other people.

So there you have it. A little rant on some of the worse parts of modern human nature. Well, "modern" is a stretch, Drinking has been going on for a long time.

Cheers.

P.S. I have nothing against sex though, as long as you don't turn it into gambling. DON'T BE DAFT, WRAP YOUR SHAFT!