Sunday, July 11, 2010
New World Champions
Tonight the match is going to be exciting, football lovers all around the globe will be watching the match. Whether the Dutch, come away with the greatest prize of the footballing world or will they succumb to the Spanish armada?? that remains to be seen. Either way we are going to witness something special, with the dutch style of efficient football vs the technically sublime skills of a certain Xavi, Iniesta and the prolific David Villa. I remember when Spain was in the Euro cup final and they managed to end Germany's run and they did it once again in the Semi finals, Spain is going to be a tough team to beat and Netherlands will have to close down on their Midfield quickly, likewise even Spain need to really to concentrate on the punishing pair of Robben and Sneijder, these players can really make a difference, although i personally feel that Nigel De Jong's return is only going to bolster the already tough Dutch holding midfield. I personally favour the Spanish but the Dutch team really look top notch, the only reason for concern is Robin Van Persie, who it seems has left his scoring boots back in Amsterdam. Even El Nino's form and place in the time can be questioned, as he has hardly showcased any of the tenacity of the Euro cup 2008. Conclusion; Expect Fireworks, Its going to be an extremely intense final and my advice is that we should all watch history in the making.
Addiction the enemy within
Addiction is described, as ‘a deep seated personality disorder, whereby the person develops a chemical dependency on a mood altering substance and loses the ability, to think logically and reasonably, which consequently leads to chemical insanity’.
An addict is a man or a woman, whose entire life and thinking, revolves around drugs, in one form or another- the getting and using, and finding ways and means to get more. Simply put”An addict uses drugs to live and lives to use drugs”.
Addiction begins with occasional use and swiftly escalates into a problem. Any prospective addict becomes addicted to primarily, the substance and the allied patterns of behaviour that contribute to the urge to repeatedly use in an attempt to relive the first “high” the addict experienced
Normally, an addict has an ICE, impulsive, compulsive and excessive personality. An addict is fanatical, reckless and fixated. This same personality facilitates the recurring use of the substance.
Most adolescents begin to take drugs for a variety of reasons, peer pressure, curiosity, and experimentation. Most teenagers pass through the experimentation stage without developing a drug abuse problem, but the remaining few are not so fortunate.
Talking to a few addicts, I remember one such addict shared in explicit detail about how he began to smoke weed.
‘When I had started, everything seemed fun, the freedom and rebellion, were the chief reasons to smoke up marijuana,
I first smoked weed out of curiosity, and I fell in love with the buzz I got from smoking up, I felt like I was in heaven, it was ecstasy. This high left a lasting impression on my mind. When I would initially smoke pot, I would smoke up once in a week or once in 4 days, slowly but steadily my need to smoke weed increased. I started to get stoned once in a day. I really thought that I was better person than I was without the weed; two months went by in a smoky haze and I over indulged in weed. I always searched for the very same buzz, I had experienced the first time I smoked pot, I would end up smoking weed everyday, and at all times yearning for this buzz. Everything else was irrelevant.
At some corner of my heart, I knew that I should quit smoking weed. I had started turning into a person whom, I did not want to become. However, the yearning for the buzz I got from smoking the weed was too intense. I remember, I tried to resist it and the more I resisted the more it persisted, and I ended up losing the war with weed, I could not manage my life’.
I also had the opportunity to speak to a smack addict. He had slightly different experiences to the weed addict and shared his experiences with us;
‘When I first smoked brown sugar, I was already hooked onto weed. However, the buzz I got from smoke brown sugar was better than the buzz I got from smoking weed, and it seemed as though my mind had registered the high and had subconsciously ridiculed the effects of weed, I knew at that very moment; Smack was the drug I wanted to indulge in. I had to have it at all costs.
I included smack in my daily routine of getting stoned, I loved to smoke smack. I started to look down upon weed as a pathetic drug, with a weaker buzz, compared to smack.
I used smack for about a year and I had lost almost half of my body weight, I lost my appetite and had started to appear malnourished. I got worried and decided that I would give smack up.
I tried on my own once, and I came face to face with physical craving; I was experiencing it for the first time. I was in pain; I felt as if someone had burnt a hole in my intestines, my entire body was on fire. I was terrified and very confused as to what was happening to me, I tried every way of numbing the pain, I smoked weed, I had a quarter of whisky to try and numb the pain, finally I met another smack addict who had been using for years and he told me that if I would just smoke one piece of smack the pain would cease. I was delirious with the pain and wanting to put an end to it, I ended up smoking 3 pieces of smack.
Later in my life I came to regret not living through the pain that fateful day, As I had suffered the terrible pain of withdrawing from smack, I resigned to the fact that I could never summon the strength to live through that pain and gave up on the idea of quitting brown sugar, I had turned into a slave for brown sugar.
When I look back in hindsight I can safely say that the pain of withdrawing was a lesser than the pain of continuing to smoke smack.’
Talking to a few other addicts who shared similar experiences, I had arrived at the conclusion, though every addict has a distinct story about how it began, and the experiences may be different, however, all these addicts share similar patterns of drug abuse and behaviour. In the end though, every addict has the same thing in common; ‘the drugs’.
An addict is a man or a woman, whose entire life and thinking, revolves around drugs, in one form or another- the getting and using, and finding ways and means to get more. Simply put”An addict uses drugs to live and lives to use drugs”.
Addiction begins with occasional use and swiftly escalates into a problem. Any prospective addict becomes addicted to primarily, the substance and the allied patterns of behaviour that contribute to the urge to repeatedly use in an attempt to relive the first “high” the addict experienced
Normally, an addict has an ICE, impulsive, compulsive and excessive personality. An addict is fanatical, reckless and fixated. This same personality facilitates the recurring use of the substance.
Most adolescents begin to take drugs for a variety of reasons, peer pressure, curiosity, and experimentation. Most teenagers pass through the experimentation stage without developing a drug abuse problem, but the remaining few are not so fortunate.
Talking to a few addicts, I remember one such addict shared in explicit detail about how he began to smoke weed.
‘When I had started, everything seemed fun, the freedom and rebellion, were the chief reasons to smoke up marijuana,
I first smoked weed out of curiosity, and I fell in love with the buzz I got from smoking up, I felt like I was in heaven, it was ecstasy. This high left a lasting impression on my mind. When I would initially smoke pot, I would smoke up once in a week or once in 4 days, slowly but steadily my need to smoke weed increased. I started to get stoned once in a day. I really thought that I was better person than I was without the weed; two months went by in a smoky haze and I over indulged in weed. I always searched for the very same buzz, I had experienced the first time I smoked pot, I would end up smoking weed everyday, and at all times yearning for this buzz. Everything else was irrelevant.
At some corner of my heart, I knew that I should quit smoking weed. I had started turning into a person whom, I did not want to become. However, the yearning for the buzz I got from smoking the weed was too intense. I remember, I tried to resist it and the more I resisted the more it persisted, and I ended up losing the war with weed, I could not manage my life’.
I also had the opportunity to speak to a smack addict. He had slightly different experiences to the weed addict and shared his experiences with us;
‘When I first smoked brown sugar, I was already hooked onto weed. However, the buzz I got from smoke brown sugar was better than the buzz I got from smoking weed, and it seemed as though my mind had registered the high and had subconsciously ridiculed the effects of weed, I knew at that very moment; Smack was the drug I wanted to indulge in. I had to have it at all costs.
I included smack in my daily routine of getting stoned, I loved to smoke smack. I started to look down upon weed as a pathetic drug, with a weaker buzz, compared to smack.
I used smack for about a year and I had lost almost half of my body weight, I lost my appetite and had started to appear malnourished. I got worried and decided that I would give smack up.
I tried on my own once, and I came face to face with physical craving; I was experiencing it for the first time. I was in pain; I felt as if someone had burnt a hole in my intestines, my entire body was on fire. I was terrified and very confused as to what was happening to me, I tried every way of numbing the pain, I smoked weed, I had a quarter of whisky to try and numb the pain, finally I met another smack addict who had been using for years and he told me that if I would just smoke one piece of smack the pain would cease. I was delirious with the pain and wanting to put an end to it, I ended up smoking 3 pieces of smack.
Later in my life I came to regret not living through the pain that fateful day, As I had suffered the terrible pain of withdrawing from smack, I resigned to the fact that I could never summon the strength to live through that pain and gave up on the idea of quitting brown sugar, I had turned into a slave for brown sugar.
When I look back in hindsight I can safely say that the pain of withdrawing was a lesser than the pain of continuing to smoke smack.’
Talking to a few other addicts who shared similar experiences, I had arrived at the conclusion, though every addict has a distinct story about how it began, and the experiences may be different, however, all these addicts share similar patterns of drug abuse and behaviour. In the end though, every addict has the same thing in common; ‘the drugs’.
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