This might come a bit surprising to the world….but I do know a thing or two about addictions. It doesn’t matter what your addictions are, thing is the resulting effect is the same. Actually….scratch that, it does matter the difference between addictions, some could cause you to end up dead quicker than others.
That’s beside the point of this by the way. What I really am trying to say is, the whole point of an addiction is that it removes your thoughts in that period from the reality of your reality. I mean, who doesn’t want that...to run away...only thing we forget though, when we indulge in those addictions is that….it’s only temporal. No matter how long we hide behind those addictions, reality always has a way of catching up real quick. The moment the effect of the addiction wears off, reality comes flooding in faster than light.
I don’t like addictions, but I have them. I think we all do too. It’s not necessarily something we love, but it started out that way, ever so honestly, slowing creeping its way in, demanding more time, more of everything, more of you until it consumes you and makes your life ever so meaningless. The thing about an addiction is that it becomes an illegal gateway to your mind, your body and ever so dangerously…your spirit. It contends with your beliefs, your standards, everything that makes you you. It causes you to battle with your identity, your sanity, even your love…for the most important people to you. It slowly magnifies itself, changing forms, boosting your ability to run…to run away from life, until finally your run off that cliff. I wonder what stage you are now, personally I’m not waiting to find out.
Hold up!!!! Biko….biko!!!!...it’s not that deep!
But think, really think and see….it is that deep!
Whether its sex or alcohol or drugs….or something ever so seemingly irrelevant like movies, sleep or partying. It is an addiction, it’s the reason for indulging that makes them what they are, not the very thing in themselves. And for each one of them, they all need a rehabilitation to get rid of – a certain infusion of truth. It’s unfortunate they have those centers for drugs and alcohol and not much else.
But I do have Yahweh, and with Him, impossible is nothing and nothing is impossible. What do you have? Because if you think you are enough….then my friend, you are a high speed train…on overdrive (you just don’t know it yet), and at the end of those tracks no matter where you turn lies one certainty…..Death!
But life is beautiful, it’s so easy not to see. In truth, there’s only one way you can see…through the eyes The Creator. Now, this might be a truth, you either don’t want to come to terms with or you don’t know how. It is the truth all the same – exclusively and not relative.
So addictions are at the end of the day a shadow, unreal and dark. That is, only when we are misaligned with The Sun.
I can be extreme, I know….but is there really such a thing as balance.
