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Smoking is better done when you’re with someone who is also a smoker, and this is definitely the case when I’m with my friends who are also may high school batch mates. You could really find pleasure when you smoke when you want to, but you can’t go a long way if you’re alone. However, if you’re hanging out with a lot of smokers who are close to you, it just isn’t the same.
Before I had a family and still living with my parents, I had one close friend who is just a walk away from our house. Whenever we want to hang out so as to pass time, one of us would call the other to go to a place where no other people except us knew (of course, I already told this story to my wife a lot of times). The place is actually a variety store or a ‘sari-sari’ store, as it is called here in the Philippines, which had a nice and comfy used sofa hanging around at the front where we would stay for around an hour or so talking about small and big things. This place is what we called ‘rax’, short for ‘barracks’, which later became the silly term we used for the deed itself, as one of us calls for the other by saying ‘Let’s rax!’.
I do find smoking a real pleasure, but I can’t seem to finish one after the other when I’m alone. It just isn’t that satisfying, and I do feel that I’m only smoking because I want to pass the time and not enjoy smoking itself. It does help me get relief after hours of working at home, but smoking two sticks subsequently appears to be a very tedious task, and I feel that it has become a task that I need to do so as to not feel stressed out from work.
Now that I’m getting near my thirties, I suddenly thought of having electronic cigarettes as an alternative. Electronic cigarettes would be a healthier substitute especially if I’m hanging out with my friends where I do tend to smoke a lot. But I think it’s a little hard to get electronic cigarettes in our place, and I don’t normally shop online just to buy things, so I might stick with real cigarettes for now.
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