Friday, March 26, 2010

Alcoholism and Research

"Regular and moderate alcohol consumption is beneficial for people who had a previous heart attack or other ischemic vascular events, a new study has concluded."

this was what was written in a national daily! now i would sometimes wonder in one way we try and show alcohol and its consumers as evil of the society , but on the other hand such research shows a different side of it. The problem with the research i would say is the MODERATE clause in the research. Humans have the tendency to get hooked on to anything which they like and that throws the moderate clause of the research right out of the window! and as even a layman could tell you anything above moderate is ALWAYS bad for our health exception being MONEY !!
Mostly people of the older generation who are very much in to religious scriptures despise the use of alcohol by our generation saying that its against our religious beliefs and hence we must not touch alcohol let alone drink it. I am not much in to the scriptures but watching serials on television showing an enactment of the above mentioned scriptures i keep wondering, why does the king of the GODS Lord Indra gets to drink and watch beautiful girls (Apsara's) dance.
Humans tried to replicate the same scenario here on earth (Dance Bars) where alcohol and dance are done in about the same way.. i assume as i did not get a chance to see it for myself as they got banned before i could get to that stage!
not that i am sad at having missed it as an after thought!
But the the point always shown was that Lord Indra was having a good time doing the above mentioned deeds as it was and then there was a Demon who also wanted to do just that and all Gods conspire against the poor fella getting such a pleasure! i once asked my grandfather the reason behind why he could do it and not the rest of mankind.... and guess what the reply he gave me was simple but kind of true.. he said He is GOD and hence he can do it, we are common men and hence are not allowed !
We had a good laugh a week later on this as my loving grandfather said to me with regards to another discussion that WE all have a part of GOD within us and hence we should respect each other!!
and all i could say at the end was CHEERS to Life!!

1 comment:

  1. Very Cleverly stated on all the deeds you wanted to do ... now that i am sure i cant stop someone from drinking much ... on the other hand i guess i can start it too on a regular basis...

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