When I was about to start my business, I began to rack my brain thinking of what I can sell. I’ve always loved groceries and I’m glad that’s what I’m into right now coupled with the fact that my mum has been doing it for over fifteen years and I know so much about it. Before I concluded on what to sell, I was thinking about alcohol but I didn’t later venture it because it requires one who has so much action to do it.
Would you believe that alcohol is one of the fastest selling goods here in my country? I don’t know about other countries but I’m sure of Nigeria. I’ve noticed that so many people love to spend their money on things that they cannot benefit from or things that will ruin them and that’s we see so many people spending too much on drugs and alcohol.
Unfortunately, it is ruining the lives of our youths. Not just youths these days but people who venture into it.
Is the damaging effects of drugs more than that of alcohol?
I don’t believe that one is more than one. Taking too much of alcohol or drugs will surely have an effect on some parts of your body. If it gets damaged, the person will lose his or her life and even before the death, such a person must have spent a lot of money for his survival but some of them are unfortunate and won’t survive.
These days, especially the youths, they are taking too much of it that they never want to know that they’ve got limits for whatever they do. We’ve seen so many people who roam mad on streets and it doesn’t make any sense. There was a day when I was in my mum’s shop and a man was who was so drunk and couldn’t control himself until he fell inside the gutter. What kind of life is that? I take alcohol but not so deep and I can’t get married or even date someone who drinks to stupor.
Does banning of alcohol have anyway of making the society better?
Firstly, let’s take a look at the rate in which people buy alcohol. It’s insane. There are some people who prefer to drink alcohol instead of feeding their families. That’s to show you how dear alcohol is to some people. They abandon their wives who has kids for them at home, leave the house very early in the morning and get back home in the midnight. When they get home, they still won’t drop a dime for their family members after they must have spent a lot of money out there. Do you believe that things like this causes broken homes? Do you know how much harm broken homes has caused to the society? It’s crazy but it’s fact.
There are some people who take too much alcohol and alcohol is known to dull the part of the brain that controls how the body works. Each time you take alcohol, the liver filters the alcohol and some of the liver cells die. Just take a look at what we are doing to our body and this causes untimely death.
At the same time, a lot of people complain about how bad the economy is which we all know but those set of people will be the ones to spend too much money on alcohol forgetting that they’ve got priorities or important things to do.
Alcohol is doing more harm than good to the society. I’m sure that people will still take it in the corners if it banned but the rate of taking it will reduce.
