Heroin? Drugs? Perhaps, alcohol? How about nicotine, sex, shopping or gambling?
"Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance or engages in an activity that can be pleasurable but the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work, relationships, or health."
One often hears: "We're all addicts" or "we all have addictions."
Songs are written about it.
"You might as well admit it, you're addicted to love." - Robert Palmer
"There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes." - John Prine
Addictions come in all shapes, forms and sizes. Some we cope with, others destroy us. Many of them simply chew up the fabric of our lives.
Take the Internet and it's death eater - Facebook.
I'm on a sabbatical from FB right now. Even went so far as to delete my last several months of posts, comments and likes. Addictions not only steal brain cells, kill relationships and undermine well-being; we often overlook the ones that are just time sucks.
Minutes, hours and days can be consumed by the internet. Television, well admittedly in somewhat of a Golden Age right now, has spawned so many orphans (Netflix, Hulu, Roku, Sling, Amazon Prime) we can binge watch shows that haven't even aired yet.
Regrets, I've had a few but into the future the only Time Bandits I'm allowing in my world are those from Monty Python and Kim Stanley Robinson.
Oh, and Game of Thrones when it comes back
and the Coen Brothers
maybe PokerStars
but that's all
except for Ben & Jerry, which is a whole other addiction . . .
composite photo by Stephen McMennan
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