Choices

     You could hear a pin drop as he walked into the dark kitchen. He didn’t need a light, he has walked the route from bedroom to kitchen so many times before. He reached into a cabinet above the sink and filled a glass with water. Reaching out in front of him, he pulled out a chair from the kitchen table and sat in darkness drinking the not quite cold water. There was a basket on the table, and he reached inside feeling his way around the contents until he found a pack of smokes and a lighter. He never smoked in the house except for the nights he couldn't find sleep. Sitting in darkness, the red glow of the smoke lighting up a few inches of the room, the crackling of the burning paper a soothing sound to a man who didn’t fear the darkness, just that devilish red glow of doom. He finished his drink, snuffed out the smoke and headed back into the darkness of night all the while thinking to himself that when daylight came, he would throw those damn smokes in the trash but why not just leave them in the basket because he was sleeping better these days Yea that’s what he would do.

     QUITTING SMOKING IS A PERSONAL CHOICE. ITS DIFFICULT AND WILL TAKE AN EMOTIONAL TOLL ON BOTH MIND AND BODY.NO GOOD HAS EVER COME FROM SMOKING NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY THINK. IT'S-A CHOICE, MAKE THE RIGHT ONE. 

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