Good Spirits and Bad Spirits

Always i have been wonder-struck when i see men boasting about themselves on the alcohol brand they like to drink, how many glasses of them they have, how do that help them to fulfill a day's chores etc.

What do these alcohol taste like to them? To me, it is a bitter potion (I've tasted it a couple of times, out of curiosity).
I see these drinking gentlemen savour each sip of the alcohol like a child licks a melted Cadbury or Nestle chocolate or slurps sugar syrups. These men including my own father, scolds me for eating unlimited chocolates. What that slow poisoning drink is to him, is the chocolates for me. I don't scold him or restrict him from having a glass or a pint of drink. Thank god, he does not get overdrunk or beat my mum or his kids, neither he is an addict. But there are some, who do these inhuman activities in the name of alcohol. They blame and label it for what their tongue or limbs respond. When i hear these news, my mind finds similies and metaphors. I metaphorise them to a possessed man or woman. They do and act mad, and others relate it to possession by a spirit(ghost). Relatives, friends and dears take them to a exorcist. The alcohol addicts are taken to doctors who will have to get rid  from him, the bad spirit(alcohol ghost). He is an exorcist in that context. May be when they die, these addicts become bad spirits and teetotalers become good spirits. That's a clumsy comparison, i know, i did that to poke the drinkers, whether occasional or unoccasional, official or unofficial :p


One more thing, the bad spirits contempt good spirits who abstain from drinking. They say alcoholic gentlemen or ungentle ones live longer than they do. That may be true. But dear, drinkers...once you become old, you will gradually wish to die soon rather live seeing and hearing what you shouldn't, even atheists would start praying to god to take back their lives. When you see the good spirits who are dear and near to you die in front of your swollen red eyes, you will regret drinking and enhancing your lifespan.

Alcohol is not a somarasa or any nectar to give you long life. It really creates turbulence in your brains, of course it effects your decision-making skills. Make a good spirit and bad spirit your specimen, and see who make fine decisions. I console myself like that, when i see these men make wrong comments, suggestions or decisions. After all they are possessed na?

The long queue in front of the Kerala Beverage("B" capitalised as it is a temple for the regular customers) shops, are a good sight to see. Women can never see men so disciplined and behave like hermits any where else on the earth. I wonder from where do they get this immense patience. i can predict that 50% of the men in that long dragon like queue, stand to savour the prasad they get from the B temples and create a mishap or havoc over women and children at their homes. These possessed fathers, husbands, brothers arrive home like monsters and no exorcist can save them or the forbearing ones at the hour. May be they should bring home bottles for the members at home too, so all can become bad spirits and forget any havoc or mishaps or bad-mouths that happened the previous night, and wake up at dawn, afresh like the possessed, forgetting everything.

Courtesy of the photo- The Hindu