Look around and you will see a cloud of smoke and a person with a cigarette, man who gamble, people with glasses filled with vodka, wine or beer, and a bunch of other people busy with computers. All these are addictions. Life is hard and we need someone or something to lean on, to make our own mislead that all will be alright, in the moments when we don't know where we are going.
Someone will say that gambling, smoking, drinking or playing video games are things for weak people without character. Someone will describe such people as losers without friends and real life. But can we judge someone without looking ourselves inside?
Of course, there are just some steps from casual smoking until addiction crises, from current gambling until dangerous game with roulette where your money can burn and you will be in financial trouble, and also here is familiar story about kid who died thirsty and hungry because he spent 2 days in front of computer by playing video games. Those are cases for the community where only professional help can make results.
If we are talking about absolutely discipline and purity, there is only a small number of persons who are not attempted by any vices.
Here are some addiction, as substitutes for something that miss in real life:
1. watching soap opera - in the time of Santa Barbara, many lunches burnt
2. sending messages from a cell phone - when cell phones appeared, it was popular addiction
3. eating chocolate and other candies - Oprah would say that we are eating our feelings
4. collecting a bunch of unknown people on the internet as friends - for lonely people who want to be surrounded by many virtual supporters
5. watching movies for adults - as a substitute for the real partner
We may laugh, we can feel pity or we can judge. We can find ourselves at least in one moment when we needed something of this, just to escape from daily problems. After all, we are only humans with weaknesses and sins.
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