2 posts tagged “smoke”

The itching enquiring

A bit of an enquiry forks. How strong is your will power? When you get an itch, how long can you go after the discovery before you have to scratch it?

Issue 2

Going to have a bit of a chat about smoking, I feel I should inform you which side of the fence I fall on this matter. I'm a smoker. Now you know.

I'm going to start with enjoying a cigarette on a chilly day. A day when you are standing outside and you breathe in and you can feel the chilled air fill your lungs. With the exhale your breath is warm, making it visible. Followed by the opposing sensation of inhaling on your ciggie. We will by pass the taste description and stick to sensations. The warm smoke fills your mouth, moving down your throat into your lungs. You clear your lungs, breathing out once more. I discovered today that I sort of enjoy this experience. Well there is no sort of, either I enjoyed it or I disliked it. So we'll run with enjoyed it, because it wasn't an unpleasant feeling.

Not to mention being a smoker these days somewhat makes me an outcast. I went to this one event. Was an out door event so figured as long as you bin your butt and be considerate of the people around you. But not the case, this event they had fenced off an area for smokers. The area was at most 2 meters by 2 meters, no food or drinks allowed in the smoking area. There were times through out the day when smokers where packed tightly into this fenced off area. Like cattle. I even sure people (non smokers) with their cameras out taking photos like we're freaks. And now as all the smokers out there know, you can not smoke in pubs and clubs. WTF. Smoking and drinking go so well together. Like coffee and cigarettes, but you can not drink that coffee in the shop or even in front of the shops these days. Around here, Australia, you can get fined $150 for dropping your ciggie butt on the ground. I do, myself, try not to drop my junk on the ground. Bin it where I can. Still there are times when I don't. And honestly on occasion I do drop my butt, ok it will be around for a while I get that. Then why isn't there a biodegradable butts? And ok, am not for littering, I am for enforcing anti littering laws equally. That tool who just dropped that chip packet, or the miss who tucked the gum wrapper behind her at the bus stop then got up leaving the wrapper behind, and I flicking my ciggie should be treated and pursued equally. Don't hunt down and punish one group above another.

Today it was cold this morning. Even as I type that, I myself have issues with it. Yes it was colder this morning than it has been of late. But was it cold really? It wasn't below freezing. And am sure that if I was to google around could find several places whose maximum temperature for today will be lower than what it was here when I woke. So I don't feel comfortable bitching about the cold, just to me it was cold, I felt it. But by no means was it cold.

I have a most wonderful friend in America who had snow this past season. I can not compare to that. It's like when I am feeling depressed. Which on a pleasant note I have not been feeling lately. But when I am and people ask me "what's wrong?" I find it difficult to answer.

Ok so yeah I feel like shit and fail to see the point (of anything) yet even at my lowest I know how great my life has been and is. How lucky I am. I have no place to complain. Most of us really don’t. Not when you open your mind and your eyes and see how truly horrible life if for some people.

I'm trying to be positive so am not going to spend a lot of time people bashing. Though the ignorant, thoughtless, selfish people are thriving and driving the already sinking society ever more quickly spiralling down out of control. I'm going for a smoke. As I said trying to be more positive don't want to get my teeth stuck into this so break time.