What these ads are teaching us

Recently, i have been watching a lot of TV Mobile, as i have started on my Mondays tuition in Telok Blangah. Well, apart from my travelling activities of reading the bible in the mornings, and playing my Playstation Portable, or reading my weekly 8 days, this is what i'll probably do.

For the past 4 weeks, i practically sighted some commercials about this: Glue Sniffing.

And these commercials are getting more and more and more frequently broadcasted. While i was on the way home today, i took the bus, and i have seen 2 different commercials, depicting the same message.

Benjamin


Cindee


Fauzi


Rohaina


All of these 4 messages, it carries a message:

When you sniff glue, it's not just you who suffer. Choose wisely.

But of course, there are many reasons why people err in this area, and most of them are youth-related:
a) Peer Pressure (Fauzi)
b) Lack of love, and a need for attention (Cindee)
c) Pressure from the family.

The pressures from the family to do well.... In the first ad, Benjamin experienced a lot of stress from his family. He has to do this, do that, become this, become that. And eventually he turned to glue-sniffing, and got caught. And all these expectations disappeared. And what was left, was isolation, and solitude.

The second ad was about this girl, who grew up without parental love (I'm sure she will love it if she gets more attention), and an elder sister who didn't bothered about what's she does, except her grades. (The kind where :" I don't care how u do in school, just bring in the results!") So, she grew up rebellious and not wanting to be bothered about other people except for her own comfort and solace, and there are people out there who gives her the attention and taught her the wrong things.

The last 2 videos are perspectives from a friend and family member of someone who died due to glue-sniffing. And they are the ones who did not fall victim to this addiction, but they are those who are bearing the guilt, and remembering the loss always.

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I do know there are phamtom readers out there. Anyway, Hi!

But if u are someone who's really in the midst of such addiction, be it glue, drug, whichever, you are reading the correct blog entry here, because doing the next thing can really be one thing that will set you free from it.

Go to National Council Against Drug Abuse site, and you can get started on it.

Apparently if u are faced with such struggles, going there will allow you to get help and find information.

I believe i do have some youths reading this. So if u are facing stress from family, peer pressure and has the tendency to turn to such abuse, don't procrastinate, just click and you are on your way to getting out of abuse, and hurting people who love you.