Essay on My Pet Aversions

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My pet aversions 

Likes and dislikes are natural. They are part of our life. Everybody has his own likes and dislikes. Man can be called a bundle of these. The range of these is very vast. They may differ from man to man. People of similar likings and aversions easily make friends with one another. They make a good company and lasting friendship. The oft quoted saying, ''Birds of a feather flock together, very well underlines this fact. People like to keep to their own kind of persons. They flock together based on their common nature, likes, dislikes and similar cultural and educational background. I have my own likes and dislikes. But they are rather sharp and well defined. I am very well aware of them. I know my pet aversions so well as I do my name and palm of my hand. I have no hesitation in admitting that they are many but a few of them are really well pronounced. My friends, close relations and parents know them fairly well.
Smoking is one of my pet aversions. I dislike it from the very depth of my heart. I can hardly tolerate a person smoking near me. The smokers with, cigarettes and cigars in their mouth here and there fill me with a deep sense of hatred and repulsion. They pollute the atmosphere and endanger the health of others besides their own. Recent researches have revealed that passive smoking is no less harmful. Smoking in public places, cinema halls, trains, aero planes, restaurants etc. should be strictly prohibited and the offenders be punished. None should be allowed to smoke in these places. Smokers emit foul smell from their mouths and hands and spoil the environment. This is one of the many evils I dislike the most. In Pakistan wherever you go you find the smokers galore. They may be found in trains, buses, on platforms, bus-stands, cinema halls, markets, streets, public toilets, parks and roads. They are shameless and obstinate people and do note stop smoking even when others object to it. There is an urgent need of wide public awareness against the evil of smoking.
Flattery is another of my pet aversions. I dislike people who practice it. Flatterers are cheats and hypocrites. They have no principles, conscience, values and ethics. They are abjectly selfish, humorless and spineless people and can stoop too low to practice flattery. A flatterer is the worst enemy and yet people like flattery and flatterers. I pity such people and feel shocked at the illusion they are living in. They fail to distinguish between genuine appreciation and false admiration for selfish purposes. Not unlike smokers the world is full of flatterers. They are ubiquitous. There seems an open competition in the use of flattery. People indulge in flattery and ulterior and selfish motives. They flatter other people to gain some favor, reward or undue material gain. Flattery has become a kind of cottage industry with rich dividends and no investment at all. it really pains me to see the vain and hollow persons getting immense pleasure and satisfaction from flattery. In my opinion flattery is like a bait which is used to ensnare people by the mean, unscrupulous and ignoble persons. Flattery is a very clever means of deception of which everyone should be fully aware. I condemn both the flatterers and the people who patronize and encourage it.
 I have a strong dislike for promise breakers as well. In my opinion  promise-breaker and a flatterer stand on the same level. They are worst kind of people and deserve all our contempt and censure. ''Promise-breaker is a shoemaker'', is a well-known phrase. I heard it for the first time when I was just three years old. And since then, I ever remember it and try my best never to break  promise made. A promise-breaker is far worse than a shoemaker. People make promises but seldom keep them. They find any retest good enough not to keep a promise. People borrow money, books and other articles but fail to return on the promised day and time. Such people are a shame and disgrace to the society. They cause untold suffering and trouble to others. They practice it consciously and deliberately and tell lies. And they feel proud of it. They feel they have made others fool but they are soon exposed and then never believed and trusted by others. I dislike such people. I avoid promise-breakers at all costs. It is a very bad and repulsive habit. Our political leaders are the worst offenders in this respect. They make tall promises at the time of elections but never fulfill them. And so they deserve most severe criticism and denunciation. They promise mountains and do not perform even molehills.

Backbiting is another evil I hate and dislike most. A backbiter is no less dangerous and harmful than a flatterer or promise breaker. Backbiters are worst kind of people as they speak ill at the back of others. They are cowards and dare not criticize the people before them. They are really jackals and wolves in the human form and deserve our utmost contempt and censure. They cause immeasurable harm and damage to the society. They enjoy character assassination and poisoning the ears of the people against others. We should be well aware of tell tales and their cunning. They can create enmity and hostility even between very intimate friends by their cunning craft of backbiting and tale bearing. Tale-bearers, back-biters and rumor-mongers are a definite nuisance to the society.

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