ADDICTIONS

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ADDICTIONS

By the dictionary's definition, an addiction is the condition of being addicted (to a habit) or of being an addict, a dependence, habit, fixation, craving, compulsion, habituation, inclination, bent, enslavement, substance abuse, alcoholism. We are all addicts to some form of addiction, whether it be an innocent one or a destructive one. We can be addicted to the obvious: drugs and alcohol. We can also be addicted to food, gambling, sex, a person, sports, work, television shows, etc. Anything that causes us to vervently return to it and never quite feeling satisfied with it, like an itch that you can't quite reach to scratch, is our addiction. Our addictons always leave us wanting more.

Do we have to come from an abusive or disfunctional family to have an addiction? Do we have to be rich to have an addiction? Do we have to be poor to have an addiction? No to all of the above. Becoming addicted to something has really little to do with the above things. We may become addicted to the same thing as our parents and/or spouse are addicted to but that is by the nature of exposure. Oft time what addictions our parents and/or spouse had tends to leave a bitter distaste in our mouths, enough so that we rebel against that addiction and swear off that addiction for life.

We choose (yes choose, as we always have free-will in these kind of choices) what our addictions will be. Generally, we base our choices how what makes us feel good, what can give us tempory pleasures, what can take us away from reality for awhile. Often we can walk away from our addictions, but we don't as they are too comfortable and have become a way of life for us.

In the more extreme addictions such as drugs or alcohol, we can't just walk away. Our bodies rebel in such a way that we are a prisoner to those addictions. The danger in chosing an addiction is that it controls you, it takes over your life, some addictions more controlling than others.

As with all decisions in life, one must wisely and thoughtfully pick his addiction. We are all addicted to one thing or another and I know of no one who is not addicted to something. Personally my weapon of choice is potato chips and Pepsi.

ANSWER TO LAST TRIVIA QUESTION: Where would you find Fibber McGee and Molly? On the radio.....they had their own radio show.
TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out" in 1956. Where was it used?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: I don't do drugs. I get the same effect just standing up fast.