A world of choices!

Time: 11am
Venue: a popular mall's food court
Day: weekend
Observation: people having McDonalds for a breakfast!!!!
Reaction: ???? (lost for words)
And what was i doing there? : I was with a friend and thankfully, enjoying fresh fruit juice...
Why am i sharing it with you? Because we all could and should start wondering if this is the best we can do?
With the obesity levels and hence, diabetes levels in the country reaching all time high, should we exercise restrain in places like food court or should the governments ban sale of high calorie cheap food completely?
I don't know. But what i do know is that everyone is sane enough to make that decision for themselves. There is only so much that the governments can do.

Look at tobacco. The UAE government has taken strong steps to curb this habit and yet, when my neighbour's teenage son has late night parties that keep us awake, forcing us to stand in the balcony and look at what's going on, it is shocking to see this whole group of teenagers smoking like a kitchen chimney. I wonder if they really go to a school. Because if they did, how can they not understand what smoking does to them? Do their parents know about it? Where do they get the money for this? Where do they get their cigarettes from- since they cannot be sold to those below 18? Or, are they 18 and yet, they think it is cool and fashionable to smoke and burn your lungs???
Call it communication gap, generation gap or just the arrogance of hormone-laden youth, or even the so-assumed wiser, older age...we are bent on destroying ourselves. We allow ourselves to eat junk, drink junk and are finally becoming junk.
CONGRATULATIONS!