It's no secret that everyone has an addiction... Whatever it may be, some addictions are definitely more serious than others...
Being addicted to Drugs, Alcohol, Sex, Work and so on... Usually lead to awful consequences and the fight against them is far from easy...
I feel sometimes that people (me included) can throw around the word "addiction" too much and there is a huge danger to that... the danger of minimizing what it is to be an addict...
I have more than one occasion called myself a TV show addict... and as I was writing my next sentence just now, where I stated that I could go on not watching my favorite shows... I just realized that I can't... I mean... if for some reason I wasn't able to download them, I would hunt down some way to get them... That is sort of a scary realization to me... they are just TV shows and even though right now, I am following over 20 of them... There are a few that I couldn't stop watching for anything in this world...
Recently, while talking to a friend... He stated that addiction is not a disease... and to be quite honest, that statement pissed me off horribly... and it offended me personally, since my grandfather was an alcoholic... we went on this discussion that gradually just made me more and more irritated, specially when he said addiction is a choice...
I believe we chose to indulge ourselves... but we become addicts when we just can't control it anymore... I usually describe the difference between and addict and someone that is not one, by saying that and addict needs the object of his/her addiction... whilst a non addict, doesn't have that need...
I think I had more to say but I'm not even sure anymore... the realization I just made while writing this post is freaking me out... I mean, I'm not going to stop downloading the shows I love... but I don't stop my life for it... I go out, have fun... when I'm home and doing nothing I sit and watch my shows... Should I be worried?? I am actually questioning that as I write here...
Well, since I came to realize this I will be sure to not let it rule me and keep my eye open I guess... I am honestly confused right now lol... I don't even know how to end the post...
Sunday, October 5, 2008
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Hello Larissa, I think you ended it quite well. I have seen what those addicted have been through and witnessed what it can do to people. The perils of addiction is a very touching subject. Thanks for stopping by.