When addiction isn’t tragic, it’s kind of hilarious. I mean, you can’t help but burst out laughing when someone says they’re addicted to “World of Warcraft”. What? Is there a clinic where they give you doses of Code Red Mountain Dew to ease you through the night?
Look, let me just cut to the chase: a human being can get hooked on anything, but the word “addiction” should only be applied to someone who is hooked on hardcore drugs and is sleeping in an alley using another passed out addict as a blanket. Anything else doesn’t apply.
Just because you like cookies, cakes and pies and have gained weight as a result doesn’t make you an addict who deserves to be coddled while being patted on the back saying “Aw there there, cry it out. Yeah, that’s a good buddy.” It means you need to stop shoving crap in your mouth and eat a damn carrot.
Addiction is real, and destroys millions of lives. Being addicted to something like cocaine or heroin develops a mental and physical dependency that is immensely hard to shake. People have stolen, deceived and killed to just to get a taste. That, my friends, is a true addiction.
As a result these people go through years of therapy and have had to build a new life after burning the old one down. The issue is so bad that the government needs to stop trying to get rid of petty drugs like pot and focus on wiping out hardcore narcotics.
Sorry to get serious, but it’s a real issue. Now, try to apply that to your “addiction” to “Halo”, being a couch potato, watching “Vampire Diaries” or anything else and see if they compare to drugs. If not, then smack yourself on the head repeatedly.
Sure, it’s easy to get hooked on a new game or a TV show. But those are habits easily broken by simply walking away from them. Put down the controller. Discover the sun and poof! You will see that your debilitating illness miraculously washes away.
TV, video games, junk food, constant exercising and yelling at homeless people are not addictions: they’re crutches. They are crutches used to validate an inner flaw you are too scared to admit to. It’s okay to be lazy; it’s okay to be fat; it’s okay to like buying makeup in bulk. Just admit to it and embrace it as a flaw. We all have them. If you don’t wanna have a flaw and you wanna appear perfect then maybe get a spine and cut down your habit to a preferred level, then you can sleep at night knowing you’re “normal”.
After that we can focus on addressing real addictions and making sure they get the help they need instead of using the word as an excuse to scream, “I have to get to the Hill of Buttfart and get the Sword of Virginity! Leave me alone it’s an addiction!”
