Addiction

In my short life I have come to a conclusion that addiction is a very important part of everyone's lives. I'm not saying that it's a good thing. I'm just saying that it's a road often travelled by and most people have been through it in some time or part of their lives and mind you I'm not talking about drugs or alcohol or any particular activity anyone does to get high. What I'm talking about is the general idea of addiction,the actual idea of relieving themselves from the troubles of life by the intake of something or the other, it can be of any type, general things like sleeping or food and sometimes serious activities like murder, rape, stealing etc. It can also be the pursuit of something. It always has a certain reaction, for example a bike rider always has a chance for an accident no matter how good he is, a foodie will get fat unless he/she would work out. That's just a law of nature, consequences are severe, no matter how hard we try to fool ourselves while enjoying and there's only one solution to this, work. We always need to keep ourselves busy and keep doing something, it could be anything that inspires us or anything that we like. For example instead of eating a lot of food, one could make some, as it teaches us how much of effort is exerted in making something that is consumed so easily.
Imagine building a house after months of work and then seeing it washed away within a minute after a hurricane. That reminds us of the irregular and erratic behaviour of life.

What matters most is that we learn to control ourselves. Self-control is the most effective anti- dote for addiction With that said let's come to the real topic as to what addiction really is. It is practically a necessity for every person, atleast that's what we think but in reality it's almost an uncontrollable urge, it's a phenomenon that cannot be expressed fully in feelings and words. In science, addiction is described as a chronic brain disease. For a person or as a total concept. A certain person once said that this world is the worst abode for anyone who walks and resides on it as it's resources are limited, it's foods are poisons and according to me it's medicines counter reactive of their true purpose. Intelligent people have always thought of this world as a place which is non-permanent in nature and deceptive in character. Still people allow themselves to be drawn to this world and name their addictions as elusive tastes.
What I basically want to say is that the world was set up in a way to draw people towards the wants that it advertises so passionately. It is always blamed on the person that he was the one who gave himself up to a life of sins, but perhaps this is not always the case.

Maybe the person did it under some sort of pressure or was enforced by his inner self to act upon an unapproved path? Or maybe he did the act on an impulse for revenge after losing someone or something and faces due justice after not receiving it himself. Sadly, no one believes on creating an environment that is suitable for everybody and makes for a very complicated solution.

Most of us aren't the same, some of us are sociopaths, psychopaths and various other versions of mental distinctiveness. Sometimes it is the circumstances and the situations in which the person finds himself, in childhood or at any particular age for that matter that results in this peculiar characterisation. Probably it's for the best that we all are different and we all may have room for improvement and that's why God created us this way, to fulfil our purpose and the first thing we have to do is to end the most common type of addiction- procrastination. Such a trait that abounds in each and every person to some extent and, the rest of the world who have defeated the teeming problem, are the leaders. We need to end this problem or else we'll probably get somewhere we don't want to be, or worse, get absolutely nowhere.

A feeling of shame, guilt and all other sorts of negative feelings covered by the delusional clothing of happiness is what addiction gives birth to. Most people say they do it because they want to be happy but of course that's not it, you see we weren't born to chase happiness or seek pleasures. It's only because of wrong messages that we have come across that has resulted in such wrong interpretations of life, although happiness is important it's not that we have to arrive at a place that is a happy wonderland. Happiness is not a place, it's a way of life. Happiness surely doesn't lie in this world or in any sort of pleasures or addiction. Happiness is the manner in which we operate. It's the tool we use to keep ourself calm and composed. It's a measure, not a consequence and of course, happiness is the resident of our hearts, yearning freedom, to be fully expressed. It's one right that a person shouldn't deprive itself from. Ironically, right to happiness can be deprived only by the person itself and not by anyone else. As Miss Holmes once said, "Happiness is a story, sadness is a poem." Both of the feelings are under our control, no matter how difficult it seems. Because life is difficult.

Addiction is nothing but the inanimate activity of life that causes such serious repurcussions in happiness that only change can free it from the shackles of monotony. Change is constant but in the case of the addicted, it's not. Addiction causes people to stay satisfied at a particular level. It does not urge them to set new goals. Basically, they are uninspired. This is averse to human nature and that is what addiction basically does. It 'inspires' us to be uninspired, it 'inspires' us to be unambitious and most of all it 'inspires' us to waste time. Time is the very essence of human existence. Everything is measured and related to time. Human existence is measured in time and indicated in the amount of productivity bought about while spending it. If we could somehow control time we could control a lot of things. But that's science and we haven't reached that level of knowledge so as to bring about a change in our way of thinking.

Some say that time can be controlled but indirectly. Mark Ruffalo once said in an interview that he suffered from anger issues when he was young. But after practicing meditation for some time each day for several months he was able to resolve his anger issues and strangely, it seemed to him that time slowed down just for him and he was able to find some peace of mind. Maybe, it is possible to control time or a lot of other things and not just figuratively but quantitatively too, the only thing we should bring into practicality is the change in our belief. Make its roots firm and unwavering to doubt and disbelief, only then we might be able to do the things we exist for. Belief is a must.

All the afore said views are my own, except for the quoted lines. I am liable for anything that I say, but I do not guarantee that whatever was stated in this text is a hundred percent true.