“There is a still moment in time, a moment when our addictions no longer are able to hide the truth from us. A point in life when everything breaks down, the moment when you somehow have to choose between what your life is, and what you deeply want your life to be about.”

I thought about this quote deeply, then I reflected over a conversation I had with a dear friend of mine this past weekend. I remembered hearing myself talk about how much caffeine I intake on a daily basis, how my doses, per se, have more than tripled just to sustain the same energy levels I used to have years ago. My voice kept echoing in my head, not in a multiple personality disorder kind of way, and I really was taken back on just how addicted I am to trying to function on a normal level. So of course seeing as I cannot contain my thoughts for very long, I decided to write a general blog about addiction.

 I have realized that however pleasant the sensation you experience, with time and through overuse, will wear out its own “pathway” in consciousness, developing much deeper ruts, such that you will crave and desire more and more in order to reach the same “high”. If we reinforce abstinence and self-control or moderation, it will help to re-empower the most basic pleasure and increase it, while overuse can and will dull the enjoyment. This broadly applies to all forms of addiction, including food, candy, nicotine, sex, shopping, power, etc. Non-attachment helps to cultivate a looser and more nonchalant indifference to pleasure, which must be exhaustively cultivated in order to nullify our addictions. This can also help to enhance one’s sense of control over the pleasant situations that one has been drawn too overuse. It will also gradually lead to a new sense of self, based just on being who you are.  

Sometimes we have to face reality and learn to function on our own natural inherent state of life force. The more comfortable we become with ourselves and our own “skin” the more clear life unfolds before us.