YIN DOLMAH
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a modicum of respect from those they knew and associated
with regularly.
Yet Tebo lived the way he did and still was the healthiest old
man in Aglob; fit and fully in control of all his affairs. There
was not a single negative aspect or attribute of Tebo that
anyone could point to and ascribe to his consumption of
alcohol. None that I am aware of. Absolutely nothing.
Was he an alien who metabolized alcohol differently from
us earthlings? Some people in Aglob began to speculate
that was the case. How could he live like this for over sixty
years and still bear no scars or signs of what, by all accounts,
could easily be looked at as an unhealthy, dangerous
lifestyle?
So, my question to you Yin is, which of the two men of
Aglob; Tebo or Ruga would you refer to as having an
addiction?
“Definitely Ruga,” I answered. “Ruga was willing to lose his
dignity and was at risk of even losing his family over his
impulsive pursuit of women with no regard to how it affected
the things of substance around him. He lost his mind running
after all the women in Aglob so much so that he lost
complete respect not only from the women who only wanted
the money he gave them, but also the people who got to
know him closely and observed how he had no sense of
what constituted a fair exchange.
Tebo on the other hand had what I would call an excessive
habit or vice but which in no way got in his way of
accomplishing that which he needed to achieve as a man.”
“Well thought out analysis,” the old man replied to me.
There are many souls who walk this earth who are
deeply addicted to one thing or another without even
knowing it. On the surface, they look normal like everyone
else; they are not hooked on any kind of substance that