Substance Abuse and Kamlesh
( I do not promote any form of drug inductions or nicotine-based products, this blog-post is only for highlighting the worsening condition of the common public due to substance abuse. Please do take this as an act of awareness and also educate people affected by this agile trend. Parental Discretion Advised)
Once, I had gone to a bakery (yes I do that sometimes) to buy a pack of chips
I see this group of dirty men half covered standing nearby and then they send one their friends to buy a pack of cigarettes, the conversation between the bakery guy and the man goes like ...
Bakery guy - Kya chahiye?(What do you want?)
Ugly dude - Wo dena(point at a pack of cigarettes).
Bakery Guy- lo.
After he goes back to his friends, they look at the pack and discuss something. They look very disturbed. He comes back with the pack unopened
Dude - ye kya diya re bai tune? galat wala diya hei!(you have give the wrong one)
Bakery guy- Toh aur kya chaiye ?(What else?)
This time i see the pack, it reads, SMOKING CAUSES IMPOTENCY
- Wait for it -
Dude- Are wo CANCER wala dena.
He goes back to his friends and they are like - Haan bhai yeh sahi wala hai(Yes, this is the correct one)
And I am baffled. WOW
Now coming to a person in specific :
Kamlesh (The soluchan guy)
Recently, a documentary crew went to the downtrodden streets of Delhi to address a major issue - Substance abuse.There they met this kid - Kamlesh, a drug addict and asked him a few questions.
For those who know who is Kamlesh, you can skip this paragraph.
The interview went like:-
Interviewer - Tera naam kya he re? (What's your name?)
Boy - coumleeis ('Kamlesh' with a funny nasal tone)
Interviewer - Kaha ka rehne wala hei?(From where have you come?)
Kamlesh - Bhopal se.
I - Kaise aya hein re tu?(How did you come here?)
K- Bhag ke.... dhun dhun dhun dhun dhun (Running)
I- kitni umar hei tera beta?(Whats your age?)
K - terah saal.(13 years)
and the interview goes on...
And coming back to today;
I am standing outside college after two tests, waiting for a friend of mine whose nose suddenly started to bleed. After finishing two packets of plastic (or what you call it- kurkure),
(-Wait did you just laugh? -)
I saw friends stare at three children- one brown boy and two girls all below age 10 standing and asking college students to share what they are eating or maybe asking for money.(begging)
then I hear these few guys next to me saying - "Hey see there Kamlesh"(offense)
Ironically that kid looked like Kamlesh and then everyone around started to laugh, on their mutually gained viral internet knowledge. I was disturbed.
Coming to a far and relevant topic
Many years ago, village kids started this new trend among themselves,
of running away from home to find a new life. I guess this is how it started -
# - Bhai mei kal ghar se ud raha hai, bahut cool hai na
&- aye thug life bhai, aao mei bhi chalta hoon maza ayega
And then, this concept was given a green light by cockhead movie makers and actors, in order to bring more people to watch their shitty theater skills.
Then this boy Kamlesh ran from home and got to the job of selling old plastic and earning around 100 - 150 rupees every day. On asked about what he's going to do with the money he earned, he estimated that around 30 rs went in consuming food and 90 rs on consuming drugs - what he called Soluchan.
Kamlesh admits that he could not go a day without snorting soluchan, and when he tried he would get vomit blood and remain sick for like 5 days. This 13-year-old believes that drugs are better than going back home to his mother since she wouldn't let him continue his drug addiction.
Kamlesh says that he has hobbies like - beedi, cigarette, alcohol, hash, affem, smack and
solution(the best of all)
Believe me, when I heard his story, I felt it was funny. I too laughed.
But guys just ask yourself, is this what we are supposed to do?
One day I encountered this man saying - "This world had become a bad place", so I advised him to change his perspective, but what I see here says that we have are a really fucked up planet.
Now coming to the actual point I want to make:-
Living a luxurious life, eating healthy food, wearing fancy clothes and having parents around doesn't give you the right to laugh at such people. It only makes us privileged or secured, it may only pleasure us but what about our brains? Have we lost them?
I wouldn't clean my room until my mom told me to do so a (3x10^8) times, but what about Kamlesh, he lives away from home, away from someone who can tell him what is right and what is wrong. How do we expect him to learn that drugs would one day make him go so mad, he would eventually kill himself.
Let us assume after he got famous, he is taken to place where his given treatment, something like a rehab where he can become a kid back again. He returned home. Got everything settled. Got educated. Went to a decent job, and has forgotten everything that he had done to himself before, then one day opens his computer/phone and a video pops out- "KCUMLEISS",
will he have hope in life?
This is not only about Kamlesh, <serious tone>
Everyone makes mistakes, it takes little humility to give them another chance.
Trolling them is the worst thing we can possibly do.
It's time we need to understand that what lies in the future depends on our humbleness, if we start acting gross, believe me, humans will not exist for long.
That is all I have to say.
- Govardhan
