An opinion about addiction

Gary Zukav once said, “In order to release your addiction, it is necessary to enter your inadequacies to recognize that they are real, and to bring them into the light of consciousness to heal.”

With that being said, I have an addiction to love, sex, food, hypnosis, and talking. I often analyze and debate everything, no matter how silly… so I’m left with questioning why it is important to release addictions that others feel is unhealthy (even if we feel perfectly fine). What’s so wrong with addictions if ultimately we’re getting exactly what we want? What’s wrong with being addicted if self-preservation can be ultimately done satisfactory by the mind?

What’s satisfactory to one person might not be satisfactory to someone else, so who ultimately makes the final judgement? I suppose the addiction debate could go on to infinity and back, but I still don’t see what’s wrong with addictions. Even if an addiction imposes on another person, I still see the beauty of it because it’s a lesson to be learned. It’s just a matter if we surrender to the lesson quick enough so that time doesn’t drag on. I think addictions are healthy and necessary in order to learn greater life lessons. We may as well find addictions that feed our mind beautiful things that protect us from harm.

What is harm anyway? It’s only harmful if we allow it to be harmful. I believe we can avoid harm even if hate is imposed upon us. There are always options. If becoming an isolated black hole is the worst after-life we can possibly get, it’s actually not that bad. I’ve been there and surrendering to that was kind of fun. I think the important lesson I’ve learned is not to judge people with addictions because I’m really starting to think addictions are rather sexy.

Someone once told me that addiction is only bad if it prevents a person from seeing clearly. The question I ask myself, however - is, who decides what’s clear? What’s clear for John Doe might be a beautiful haze to someone more flexible with their learning process.

What is addiction anyway? All it is - is extreme passion for something. If I knew how to play piano and became obsessed with it, is it so bad? Who decided addiction is wrong? So what if it takes up all someone’s time and energy, wouldn’t it just make a person a better player? Anyway, I’m lost in thought again. All I really know is that I don’t know anything. I do admit to my addictions though, cause I like being in the minority. My three pence.

Several new headshots of me taken today:

Love
Isabella
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