All Kinds of Addictions Can Control Our Lives

If I hadn't become addicted to alcohol, I probably would have become addicted to something. I suppose that happened anyway, alcoholism or not. That's the kind of person I guess I am. I need to feel better than I do, and then  I need more to feel more better.

For example, I never used to drink coffee. Now I sometimes drink three cups in the morning, hoping another dose of caffeine will help me feel good. It doesn't, but I do it anyway. Maybe I'm addicted to sports. It was tough last weekend, camping where there was no phone service and so no college or pro football scores. Ugh! I talked to my wife, Kathy, last night about what I perceive as her addiction to scanning sites on her phone for hours at a time, day and night.

Do you find there is something you need to feel good? Coffee and sports aren't going to kill me or land me in jail. I have to be careful about what it is that turns me on. Brian D. McLaren, in A Search for What Is Real: Finding Faith (https://brianmclaren.net/) explained the addiction phenomenon well:

"...even though it hasn't worked so far, we keep doing the same things hoping for different results. Like the proverbial addict, we think more of what's destroying us will finally make us happy -- another drink of prosperity, another dose of power, another shot of pleasure, another bottle of bigger/faster/more, another hit of hurry."