Addiction: a distorted reality

Confined within one’s self-
Desiring freedom of self-
Drinking to fill-
Or drinking to delete.

WHY do people drink?

Stereotypical answers:
Drink to escape.
Drink to forget.
Drink to remember.
Drink to release inhibitions.
Drink to feel good about self.
Drink for fun.
Drink for social.
Drink because of the flavor.
Drink because of how it makes you feel.
Drink for entertainment- there’s nothing else to do.
Drink because it’s just part of being young and rebellious.

Why do people drink to the point of near personal oblivion?
Do we keep drinking because of a compulsive nature- we feel good and so we drink more because we want to feel even better?

Beyond drinking… why do we impair our life in any way, really? Whether it’s through depression and sadness, stress and worry, drinking, drugs, food and dieting, materialism, work, boredom, etc. I’m sure we can all make our own list of ways we impair ourselves and our life.

Addiction: a distorted reality...but then, your escape, your consolation quickly becomes a prison.

Why can’t we just enjoy life in its natural state. Why do we make happiness so complicated? How do we get so focused on ourself? Where did we lose our childlike disposition of life’s joy and assume such a negative and seriously knit brow? Our view of life is reversed from what it should be! We view our everyday life as a prison that needs escape. We have jobs that don’t fulfill us. We have a society that screams lies and tragedy at us. We have minds that race and overanalyze and worry all the time. We have physical needs that seem insurmountable. In short- we view life negatively. So if life is negative, then we must have an escape- something that makes us feel good even if for just a few minutes or hours. Enter the addiction of your choice here. At this moment we have traded the natural beauty and joy of life for an unnatural and fake sense of comfort- a false sense of joy that actually begins robbing your soul of it’s true joy.

If instead, we can break free of our unnatural securities of addiction and view LIFE as relatively positive, then we are able to see addictions as the prisons they really are. When we realize the greatness of living free, then we no longer see the value in enprisonment and we find fulfillment and value in each moment we’re actually living.

I'm loving...

...Small towns
Outdoors
Mountains and Hills
Trees
Butterflies
Down to earth people
Beautiful mornings
Seeing for miles
Fresh air
Quiet- no sirens
Quaint towns
Simplicity
Not checking my email every morning
Losing touch with the rest of the world
Getting away
Not checking my cell phone every hour of the day
No materialism
Fog
God
Lakes and rivers