Just like that

He lit a cigarette and blew it into the air. He loved the way the smoke  went with the wind as it carried it away. He thought about the job application he left at a private Audit Firm nearby and the brief interview that followed. He wished he would get a call back. He worried about his life and how difficult things had become.He never imagined when he was a little boy that things could ever be this hard. Ever.

Somehow his thoughts went back to the first day he smoked a cigarette and he realised he had been 13 years old. Just a child. Just about the same time he had dreamed of his future life and how he expected it to be. This definitely was not the picture he had in mind.

Just like today, he really loved the way he felt when he took a drag from the stick. He took another drag and let his thoughts wander around and around and it landed on the fear of never getting the job he had applied for because the age requirement was way below his age. He would be 30 in September, that was barely 3 months away.

That’s when it hit him, if he was turning 30 and he had been smoking since he was 13, he had been smoking for more than half his life.

He put out the cigarette and hasn’t smoked a day since then, he turned 49 last September.

They say everything that has a beginning has an end.