The Forbidden Fruit

God made the biggest mistake of His/Her (Well, what can I do? The gender of God is still a very much debatable issue!) life when He/She forbade Adam and Eve from eating the fruit from a particular tree. She should have known, of all people, that She was only tempting them further. Had She made no mention of the fruit to them, they might not even have discovered it. Or, considering that She was God, She could as simply have made the fruit look unappealing. Her mistake is proof to us that the status of being forbidden adds very much to the appeal of an otherwise ordinary-looking fruit.

Same goes for liquor. At home, our parents forbid us from drinking alcohol, smoking, or taking drugs. In college, the college authorities ban us from consuming alcohol (or as in the case of my college, they ban us from being found in an inebriated state), so that, by our first introduction to the boozing society, the attraction has become huge, and we succumb to the desire very easily. Instead, if alcohol is treated as something of no consequence, something very bitter in taste and with very disgusting after-effects, which in fact it is, its hold on the minds of young people would become extremely weak.

But therein lies the problem- our parents and other people who are supposed to have an influence over us, themselves do not refrain from enjoying a peg or two when they get company, as in with friends or at weddings. Or, on the other extreme, they expressly ban the bottle. Both these circumstances increase the allure of drinking. But then, I suppose that is to be expected. After all, if God could make such a gross mistake, our parents are still mere humans!

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