4,000 Days-No.6

In the book which I am reading now, 4,000 Days by Warren Fellows, the author is now regretting the time when he took drug. He keep saying in the book that if he could rewind the time to when he took drug, it would be the greatest thing. But of course he can't .

I use a reading strategy to infer the reason and the situation surrounding him that made him take drug by my background. These days, there are more young people in Japan who take drug. It became easier to have drug these days. I wonder why young people are so interested in taking drug and I tried to get to the answer by using my background.

I think that there are the problems in society. If many young people feel against the society or depressed by the society, there pain or stress is released to doing something bad things. For example, if the society is not built as good for people, such as there are huge difference among people by money, education, or wealth, the rate of crime increases. Therefore, I think the society is important to being good system and should have trust from people. If people have dream or wish to be better person or life into the society, there would be less people who commit crime because they have hopes and goals. So I think that the good solution to reduce crime such as taking drug is to check the system of society. Among the society, education is also important. If the education at school, family, or society works well to teach children and people that the taking drug brings no benefit to you, then it would be the common understanding among people. It will help society and people to reject taking drug and extinction of drug.

Also people take drug to release there pain and stress. I have heard the story of taxi driver in Bangkok. According to the story, there are many taxi drivers who take drug because there are many heavy traffic jams at Bangkok and it is stressful to the taxi drivers to wait for ling time inside of their taxi. I infer the reason why there are many taxi drivers and it is to release their stress.

By using these background, I infer the the time and situation when Fellows started to take drug and the situation should be not so good. May be there were not enough toughs about drug or the young people felt bad at their society or politics. If Fellows could trust the society and believes that the society works well to make his dreams, wish, and hopes would come true, he might not have took drug. Therefore, in my opinion, the fault and responsibility is not only for a person who actually takes drug but also in the society.