What's Your Addiction?

To apire to addiction. It goes a little something like this. You're entertained. You get used to it. You think about it. You worry about it. You work your life around it. Your crave it. Addiction. It absorbs you. You absorb in yourself. A jerk to everyone around you in the way of... Rush through everything else you do to get back to... Caught in a spiral of a lost job and empty pizza boxes cluttering your room until... Your parents cancel your World of Warcraft subscription. You yell and scream and threaten to run away forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc

Find a new addiction... repeat...

For cocaine or heroine... addiction is documented science... your body goes through chemical changes... it adds on more neororeceptors... it changes what your body thinks is normal... in essence... the drug is required by your body in order to reach what it thinks is homeostasis... without it your body screams something is wrong...

But crazy internet person contends that the process is not just for good feelings... but normalcy...

Anger... Bitterness... Pity... Happiness... experience them enough times and it will become a normal state... a normal reaction... so eventually a bitter person won't feel normal... they won't feel homeostasis... unless they have these bitter emotions attaching themselves to neuroreceptors... a jogger won't feel content unless they get that rush from working out...

And thus we make ourselves slaves to our emotions... we are trapped in our ruts... our habits... the reactions we have carved out in our minds... and thus we make ourselves happy in the worst of situations... fearful in the best... angry over nothing... we place ourselves into bitterness because we need it... we put ourselves into the victim because it feels normal... emotionally... our body craves it like food...

Because we have trained our body to think is normal...

So the next time you see someone trapped in a state of despair... or pity... or anger... or jealousy... the next time a person's reaction doesn't seem to fit the context... realize... possibly... that they might be as hopelessly trapped as a heroine addict...