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Nowadays, the world is divided into smokers and non-smokers. Smokers do annoy non-smokers, but this aversion is only material, while non-smokers' aversion to smokers is spiritual. Among non-smokers, of course, there are people who take a non-interference attitude towards smokers, and among wives, there are of course people who allow their husbands to smoke in bed. This kind of couple is obviously a good couple with a happy marriage. However, quite a few people think that non-smokers are virtuous, and they have a virtue to be proud of. I don't know that they have lost one of the greatest pleasures of mankind. I am willing to admit that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, a person without moral weakness cannot be completely trusted. He is used to taking a serious attitude and never doing anything wrong. His habits are probably regular, his actions are close to mechanical intelligence, and he often controls his emotions. I like people who are reasonable, but I hate people who are only reasonable. Because of this, when I step into someone's house and can't find an ashtray, I feel panic and uneasy. This kind of room is often too clean and orderly, and the cushions are never misplaced. The owner must be a very serious and heartless person. This will make me have to sit still and be polite, thus losing all my comfort.
Such a person who has no mistakes, integrity, no feelings and no poetry will never realize the moral and spiritual benefits of smoking. However, we smokers are attacked from morality rather than art every time. Therefore, the first step is to defend myself from a moral point of view, thinking that the morality of smokers is actually higher than that of non-smokers. The man with a pipe in his mouth is my favorite. These people are kind, sincere and frank, and most of them are good at chatting. I always feel that such a person and I will be friends. I quite agree with what Shankly said. He said that the pipe draws wisdom from the philosopher's mouth, and also makes the fool shut up and make him silent. Can produce a thoughtful, interesting, cordial and unpretentious chat style.
Of course, the smoker's fingers are dirty, but as long as he has enthusiasm, what harm is there? In any case, a thoughtful, interesting, kind and unpretentious style of talking about heaven is rare. Therefore, it is worthwhile to pay a huge price to enjoy it. The most important thing is that everyone with a pipe in his mouth is happy, and happiness is the greatest of all moral effects. "Cigar smokers never commit suicide," said Margin. What's more, pipe smokers never quarrel with their wives. The reason is obvious, because a person with a pipe in his mouth will not abuse loudly at the same time. I have never seen such a person. A person smoking a pipe, of course, the voice is very low. When the husband who smokes is angry, his way is to light a cigarette or pipe and smoke it immediately, which is somewhat depressing. But this expression will soon be eliminated, because his anger has been vented. Even if he deliberately keeps a scowl to show his anger, or to show that he has been insulted, in fact, he can never keep it. Because the smell of smoke in his pipe is so pleasant, his stored anger has long since disappeared with the exhaled smoke. Therefore, a clever wife, when she sees that her husband is about to get angry, should quickly put a pipe into his mouth and say, "Forget it, don't mention it again." This method tries everything. A wife may not be able to calm her husband's anger, but a pipe never fails.
Judging from a smoker's short-term experience of quitting smoking, that sense of loss is the best enough to show the artistic value and practical value of smoking. In every smoker's life, it is inevitable to try to get rid of nicotine lady when he is not thinking. But after struggling with the illusory conscience, he will regain his reason. I once gave up smoking for three weeks without thinking. But later, driven by his conscience, he went back to the right path. From then on, I vowed not to rebel, vowed to be a worshipper in front of her shrine for life, until I was old and incompetent. Maybe I fell into the hands of a wife who belonged to the Prohibition Club and lost my autonomy. Because in this old and incompetent period, a person is of course no longer responsible for all his actions. But as long as my autonomy and morality exist, I will not try to betray for a day. How big is the spiritual motivation and peaceful moral concept provided by this effective new invention? If we refuse it, wouldn't it be unforgivable immoral behavior? Because according to Haldane, a great British biochemist, smoking is one of the four great inventions in human history and has left a profound biological impact on human culture.
During my three weeks as a coward, I will deliberately refuse something that I know has great spiritual power. What happened was extremely shameful. Now I have come to my senses. Think about it during Qingming, and I don't understand why this moral irresponsibility lasted so long at that time. During these three painful weeks, my heart was at war day and night. If you want to describe this passage, I'm afraid you can't write it with 3000 homer poems or 150 pages of exquisite prose. My motivation is actually ridiculous. I don't understand why cosmic people can't smoke. I really can't find the answer to this question now. I guess, when a person just wants to overcome the pleasure of resistance and want to do something against his nature to kill the temporary excess of his moral motivation, this unreasonable intention may arise in his chest. Apart from this reason, I really can't figure out why I suddenly decided to quit smoking foolishly. In other words, I was like many people who were addicted to Swedish gymnastics at that time. My efforts are useless to society. What I did at that time was actually such a moral waste of power.
In the first three days, I really felt bored and uncomfortable. The upper esophagus is particularly uncomfortable. In order to get rid of this uncomfortable feeling, I specially ate some mint gum, Fujian tea and lemon candy, which actually got rid of this uncomfortable feeling on the third day. But this is only physiological, so it is extremely easy to overcome. Later I remembered that this was the meanest part of the battle. If anyone thinks that this has covered the whole situation of this despicable war, he is simply talking nonsense there. They forget that smoking is a mental behavior. Anyone who knows nothing about the spiritual significance of smoking need not talk nonsense about it. Three days later, I have entered the second step. The real supernatural war began to happen, and I felt that Venus was moving in front of me. From this experience, I found that there are two kinds of smokers in the world, and one of them is really not a real smoker. There is no such second step among such people. So, I suddenly know why many people can quit smoking easily. They can get rid of smoking habits as easily as throwing away an old toothbrush, which shows that they have not actually learned to smoke. Many people also praise them for their strong willpower, but in fact they are not real smokers and have never learned to smoke. In this kind of person, smoking is just a physical behavior, just like washing your face and brushing your teeth every morning-it is just an animal habit of the body and does not have the quality to satisfy your soul. I don't know if such a person who is obsessed with facts can reconcile his soul one day and reach the situation described by the great poet Shelley or Chopin. Such people won't feel bad about quitting smoking. They may feel happier reading Aesop's fables with their wives who don't drink or smoke.
But among us real smokers, there is a problem that a wife who doesn't smoke or drink or a husband who loves to read Aesop's fables can't dream of it. We soon understood that this move was not only a grievance, but also meaningless. Knowledge and reason will soon resist and ask, "For what social, political, moral, physical or economic reasons, one must consciously use his willpower to restrain himself from seeking that complete spiritual happiness, that profound and imaginative understanding, that responsive creative situation?" -This situation is necessary to fully enjoy talking with friends around the stove, or to have a real enthusiasm in your heart when reading ancient books, or to say beautifully written sentences rhythmically. In this season, a person naturally feels that reaching for a cigarette is the most morally justified move, and putting a piece of rubber candy in his mouth is a sin. I'll give you one or two examples of my experience here.
My friend, a gentleman, came to see me from Beiping. We have been apart for thirty years. When we were in Beiping (formerly known as Beijing), we often sat down with our knees together, smoked and chatted, and killed time in the evening. Most of the speakers are political, philosophical and modern art topics. After a long separation, we will naturally have many sweet memories. So we talked casually about many professors, poets and freaks we met in Peiping. Every time I talk about interesting things, I often think of reaching for a cigarette, but I just stand up and shrink back and sit down. My friend is talking while smoking, and he is very complacent. I told him that I had given up smoking, and I really didn't want to break up in front of him for the sake of self-esteem. Although I say so, I feel really uncomfortable in my heart, which allows me to pretend to be as sensible as ice when I am in harmony with my friends and exchange needed goods. So most of my friends are talking this time, and I seem to have only half of them present. Later, my friend left. I seem to have fought a fierce battle. Although I won by willpower, I know I am really unhappy. A few days later, this friend wrote me a letter during the trip, saying that I am not the passionate person I used to be. And said, perhaps because of the bad environment in Shanghai, so. I didn't smoke that night, and until now, I still can't forgive myself.
Another night, some intellectuals gathered in a club. This kind of party is usually when smoking. After dinner, as usual, a paper is read by a participant. The speaker tonight is a gentleman whose topic is "Religion and Revolution". The discussion was thorough and wonderful. There is a saying that Feng Yuxiang has joined the northern supervisory commission and Chiang Kai-shek has decided to join the southern supervisory commission, so some people speculate that Wu will probably join the western supervisory commission soon. When everyone heard this, they smoked even more. As for the smell of smoke in the room, it seems that the whole atmosphere is full of sharp and wild ideas. A poet is sitting in the middle of the room, and smoke comes out of his mouth and rises in circles, like a fish foaming in the water. -obviously lost in thought, very happy. Only I don't smoke and feel like a sinner abandoned by God. I already think it's stupid, and I've repeatedly thought about why I want to quit smoking. But I thought a lot and didn't understand why.
Since then, my conscience has gradually eroded my soul. Because I asked myself, what would an unimaginative idea become? Imagine this thing flying on the gray wings trimmed by non-smokers. So, one afternoon, I went to visit a girlfriend. I'm going to look back on this day. At that time, there were only two of us in the room, and obviously we could have a heart-to-heart conversation. The woman leaned forward with a lighted cigarette in one hand and a cigarette can in the other, facing me with a very charming attitude. I knew it was time, so I reached out and slowly took one from the jar, knowing that this move freed me from a moral degeneration.
When I got home, I immediately asked the children to buy a can of Winch cigarettes. There is a scorch mark on the right side of my desk, which is because I am used to putting cigarette butts in this old place. According to my calculation, it will take about seven or eight years for this scorch mark to burn through this two-inch thick countertop. But this time, in order to quit smoking, this burn mark has not deepened for a long time. It makes me feel guilty. Now, I have been happy to put the cigarette butts back in their original places every day, and the work of baking the countertop can be carried out as usual.
In China literature, few people mention the benefits of Tampa mushrooms, which is not as common as praising alcohol. Because the habit of smoking was not introduced to China by Portuguese sailors until16th century. I have checked China's literary works after this era, and there are few valuable compliments. Lyrics praising Tampa mushrooms obviously need to be written by scholars in places like Oxford University. But China people are also very sensitive to the sense of smell. Their ability to appreciate the taste of tea, wine and food is a proof. So before Tampa mushrooms were introduced to China, they had developed an art of burning incense.
Of course, I don't think I can understand those people who smoke to be cool. And don't influence others. Philosophically, I think this is about freedom. Freedom is always accompanied by the harm it brings and the responsibility to bear the consequences. Choosing to smoke is not an irrational choice. Moreover, the more a temptation is forbidden and suppressed, the stronger it will become, and people will have more pleasure in doing it.