#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year.

Day 18 – Uninvent something?

How does one do that?

With a time-machine? Hey, Jules Verne!!!

What I would like to get rid of most is all the kinds of bad, cruel, deceptive, harmful, mean, murderous, greedy (etc., etc.)  human behaviors in the world today. But then, I’d have to go back to the Garden of Eden, 6,000 years ago. and have a good talk with Eve.

But the material object I’d like to uninvent would be the cigarette.  Filthy smelling things that leave countless pieces of themselves over every floor (indoors and out), and an odor that lingers way longer than the person smoking them. They cause harm to the smoker with stained fingers and teeth, cancer in the mouth and more, and most of all black, stiff and burned lungs. And they cause even more evil to those around the smoker.

Like me.

A baby, a toddler, and a kindergardener with a father who smoked Camel cigarettes. Even when he was dying of cancer in his throat that migrated to his eye (which was removed) and then his brain, he continued to smoke cigarettes. He died an awful death at age 40 when I was five years old.

And now, “I” suffer from asthma and probably COPD, and now I begin gasping when I lean over to tie my shoelaces or carry one bag of groceries in from the car.  I try to not let it stop me. I walk miles every day, usually panting hard at stairsteps and even slight inclines. I use steroid inhalers, but they don’t help much.

Thanks Dad, for this inheritance, and for dying when I needed you!

So, yep. I’d go way back in history to the first person who lit a tobacco leaf and thought about sharing it with a friend, and I would un-born him.