B P M

There is a saying, “it takes all kind of people to make this world.” Such kind of colorful people, one often encounters in “drink circle.” In my some previous blogs, I too have described about such people  prescriptively. My this blog too is inclusive of my some friends from the “drink circle.” We are, in habit are given to categorize people as per their economic, educational or social status accordingly.

But, apart from this, some people are most suitable to get categorized in “weird or eccentric’ categories. These weird people are of its own unique kind.  In general, every person fosters some kind of mania or phobia as a part and parcel of his personality. Some are competent enough to conceal there this weakness. But some are so badly pestered by this, they  adopt it as there habit of life. By having a keen observation around, one may perceive the psychological angle of these people. And the facts behind this kind of mania or phobia somehow exhilarate you.

Strong reasons

Likely to that, I am narrating about my two friends’ eccentric behavioral mode. One of them (name needed not to be disclosed) has  nomenclature as BPM, because of his eccentric behavior.  This conferment is given by all friends unanimously. There is a strong reason to endow this title. When ever he steps out from his house, either to join his official duties or visit the friend circle, he always carries a handy “blood pressure monitoring” gadget in his bag.

Prior to his every drink session in friend circle, first at hand, he measures his Blood pressure ( BP.) Then he takes two drinks and after that, again he checks his blood pressure. The sources around him claims, he always monitors his blood pressure with the gadget regularly, after a gap of each hour.  Now reader is at liberty to categorize him as BP phobic or Maniac. Behind him, friends call him as BPM or Blood pressure machine.

Amazing monitoring machine

His BP monitoring gadget too is of unique kind. It’s  peculiarity is, it’s a “Made in China” product. It displays Blood pressure uniquely. Sometimes, it displays the blood pressure very low and other times very high. When it displays the “Low” pressure, it soothes the friend and encourages him to take more drinks. Now, he maintains an axiomatic opinion, ” By having some hard drinks, it helps put your BP level down.” But occasionally, when gadget displays “high” level of pressure, he begins to swear, not to take drinks in future.

Often this Chinese gadget is helpful in balancing our economy. In majority of monitoring sessions, it displays “Low” level pf pressure. As such, induces friend to consume more alcohol. In this way, he buys more alcohol and on every purchase, indirectly pays the excise duty to the government. Besides, in case of revealing of high blood pressure, that too induces him to buy medicines to alleviate the pressure and this helps increase the sell of medicines of pharma companies.

  A rumor afloat

Recently, a rumor floated about his afresh demeanor. Now, he too had “down loaded” an app to check his “blood sugar” level, into his smart phone. It’s obvious, a fluctuation of sugar level, he too noticed in that app. This induced him to send his blood sample to some authentic laboratory. But, in process of sending blood sample, too many hurdles surfaced up. To check the “Fasting” sugar  level, he needed to wake up early in the morning.

But his heavy drinking habit, incapacitated him to wake up early in the morning. Since, his every evening drink session continued till  late night, this made his timing to leave bed so late in the morning. The truth is, for last so many years, he didn’t remember, when he witnessed the ‘sun rise’ last time. Therefore, it was futile for him to undergo “fasting blood sugar” check up in the lab.

The another friend in the same circle

The another friend, in the same ” intimate circle,” too owns a track record to consume the alcohol heavily. It had been his record, may what come up, he never disappointed his any friend, who offered him drinks at any time of the day or night. The time might be uncommon from the very early morning to the late night. Only condition needed were, he should be awake. Not necessarily, as such to be in the full possession of his all faculties, when offered the drinks.

This untimely drinking habit, firstly effected his digestion system, in the shape of an ailment of continuous “acidity problem.”  To assuage the “acidic level, ” he happened to swallow beforehand some anti-acidic tablet and then take the drink. To keep the vital organ of the body, the liver, he regularly depended upon the “liver supplant medicines.”  The truth is, our bodily organs have got a limit to sustain the extra-load. The over drinking, gradually ebbed away his appetite. But, his craving for drinks never subsided.

 The aftermath

The day came, when he fell ill critically. He got driven to the hospital by his family members. There, after a thorough medical check up, doctor declared, his liver got damaged up to 80% of its size. This was a perilous situation. The doctor proclaimed, this organ can not be recovered to the original size by any medical treatment. Now, if he intends to survive, he was to give up every kind of alcoholic drink in future and to follow the strict dietary chart. The dietary chart contained the list of edibles, which had ever been nauseatic to him in the past. Since, all they were of “simple and plain food categories.”

The self consolation

We Indians are prone to console ourselves, in such bad situation, by having our own kind of excuses. The same kind of consolation, my this fried offered to himself. Our one legendary cine star, who too suffered from the same type of liver problem, after sustaining some injury during a film shoot, had 75% liver damage. Though, this renowned cine star had an acclamation for never consuming any type of alcohol drink , whole through in his life..

But, now our this friend began to console himself by citing the example of liver damage of this legendary cine star, in his own way. In a sarcastic mode, he often said, ”  That big star earned millions of millions in his life and never consumed alcohol in his life, but doomed to suffer from liver problem.  What’s the use of earning huge money, if you didn’t enjoy the drinks? I am in far better position. At least, I enjoyed the drinks and damaged my liver. I have got an entertaining track record of consuming the drinks, hence I have got no repent. I am in a better standing than the cine star.”

Not only this, he cogently argued, “The liver is destined to get damaged, when it had to. There is no logical ground of getting it damaged by alcohol.” and to sustain his argument, he vehemently has got the citation of cine star case. I am sure, such type of weird and eccentric prototype, you too have got noticed in your circle too. I have been inclined to search such type of people in life and promise my reader to bring other such kind of people froms the same backdrop.  Penned by — Vinay Pharasi …..