The Hidden Part of the Deal

So I was taking a walk through my neighborhood today something that I usually find myself doing whenever I'm bored and have a free day and I saw the weirdest thing today. I saw a drunk lady walking down the road. Well she was either drunk or high I don't know. Well anyway she was walking down the same side walk I was and she was really wobbly and she was laughing and muttering to herself and that made me wonder why people drink and do drugs. Either today was a special occasion or she just has a lot of problems because I haven't seen anyone like that in a long while. I'll admit that life gets pretty hard at times and I even find myself wishing I could just escape the world and forget about all my problems even if it was just for a minute but is that one minute of bliss really worth drinking and doing drugs? I mean sure you can forget about all your problems for a couple of minutes hey maybe even a couple of hours if you go far enough but the price you have to pay is far greater than the pains of reality that you are trying to escape from. I remember as a young child there used to be tons of anti drugs and drinking commercials and one talked about how with every cigarette you smoke you chop off about a couple of days or so of your life. I believe one pack is equivalent to one or two months or something like that. Well anyway no matter how drunk or high you get you'll always have to pay the price in the end. I guess you can compare this to a restaurant you can sit there and eat and eat and not worry about a thing but no matter how much you eat or how long you take you're always going to receive your bill in the end. This is true for drinking and smoking, no matter how high or drunk you get you'll end up paying for it. The price you ask? Well that depends on how much you did but I guess you can expect a couple of years chopped off from your life. It's such a ridiculous deal I don't see why some people take it. I mean a few minutes of bliss in exchange for a couple of months of their life. It's like borrowing money with 400% interest, not even worth it. But I guess to some people it is worth it, just to escape from reality even just for a few minutes. Some people would consider it "fun" others would say its the only way they can handle life but you know something? I don't think I'll ever drink or do drugs I learned to see beyond those illusions because one of the big rules in business is to look for every single flaw in the deal possible including that hidden part of the deal.