I have been with people who fall sick or feel abnormal when they do not take certain things due to how attached they have become to that substance.
A friend told me of one of her neighbors who can not confidently talk to people unless he smokes weed, and I felt pity for the young man because he is now a slave to weed.
What will he do in a situation where he can not access the substance? Does it mean he won't talk to anyone or confront things he ought to until he gets the substance to smoke?
Addiction is a terrible thing; no wonder people dread the word and have negative impressions whenever it is mentioned.
But what if I tell you that addiction is not evil alone; there is a good kind of addiction. In fact, all of us are addicts to one thing or another, unknowingly.
Everything we do in life is an addiction. Let me point out a few things we do every day that we do not know are addictions: bathing, eating, brushing, talking, walking; I can go on and on.
We have become so used to doing those things that we do them involuntarily sometimes, well, maybe because they are necessities. None of us was born with any of them, but we became used to them by doing them often.
Life revolves around addictions, but the one you are working with determines whether you are destroying yourself or building it.
Sadly, bad addiction is more common and easier to build than the good one. It's much easier to become addicted to consuming alcohol irresponsibly than to commit to eating a balanced diet.
I don't know why it is so; however, there is nothing on earth that one can not detach from.
It doesn't matter how long one is into a habit; I believe that if they can decide to stop the act, they will.
It may be difficult and require some time, but with intentionality and determination, it would be achieved.
If someone is stuck in a habit, I bet you it was their choice. Addiction is a choice rather than something beyond our control.
No one is born addicted to anything; it is a continuous interaction with certain things that leads to addiction; therefore, we can say addiction is self-made.
No matter how terrible one is addicted to something, the day they decide to stop the act and they are ready for it, they will surely stop it.
It won't happen overnight, and it won't be easy, but they will eventually get rid of it. No addiction is beyond our power to break; the same way we made it, we can also destroy it; we only need to make the choice.
So anytime I see people saying “I can't help it, I am addicted,” I feel sorry for them because they have been blinded by lies.
For some, it's not even the wrong mindset; it's their lack of desire to break the act due to how they are enjoying the pleasure that comes with it.
But if we are honest, no habit on earth is beyond repair, unless a person is not ready to work on it.
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