Public Enemy # 1

I've known this guy 2 months ago by her friend who happens to be my friend too. He called me one day when I was at the barber shop with a friend. He continued to call me from that day onwards. Every time we have a conversation, he was too confident & comfortable enough to tell me almost everything about his life(family, love life, friends, his way of life that includes his vices). He always gives me some advices for I told him about my vices too. So, in order for me to understand well his point, he was confident enough to make himself as an example.

Let me elaborate what he had said to me about how he started and how he managed to escape from it.

He told me that he started to smoke when he was still in Grade 2 and he can even finish many boxes as he can. Can you believe it? A boy at an early age making those elderly stuffs. At first, I thought that he was just exaggerating those things but he assured me that what he had said were all true, believe it or not. I really pity his mother at that time. When he was already in high school, influenced by his cousins and friends, he started to drink alcoholic beverages as well. He also started to go to other places where true men are welcome(feeling gulang man gud. tsk3). He told me that his vices ended when he was already in college. He made himself busy at that time just to keep away from it and joined some co-curricular activities at his school. He soon manage to forget it.

We met at the freedom park one day. And when I saw him, I could hardly believe that it was him because his description of himself were definitely the opposite of what I have seen on him. His appearance was a perfect disguise of what he was before.

I invited him one day during the fiesta celebration of Dumaguete City to eat at our boarding house. And that was really the time when I witnessed how professional he was to drink and smoke. Luckily, it was only me who have seen him doing those stuffs.(mayabo jud q nya uie.., hahaha)

Nowadays, when we were together with some of our friends, he kept on denying those things as if I'm a liar and he is innocent(mo promise2 pjud. baga jud ug nawong uie. duh). He's such a hypocrite. One look at him would not justify what I have said. He was lucky enough to have these what-so-called deceiving looks and personality. You just have to dig deeper within him and you'll see what I mean.;)

"Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy on him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself"
--Samuel Johnson