My whole life I’m dealing with addiction
I assume most people do
Cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, sugar, TV, shopping, news, … to name the most common ones
The list of substances and activities you can get addicted to easily is nearly endless today
I always wanted a free life
I guess you too
Most people think they are free while using those substances or following those activities
But how can you be free if you are forced to do something?
If there’s this little voice in your head all the time, nagging you to drink, to smoke, to check your phone, to get out in the cold late at night to get a new pack of cigs?
That’s the opposite of freedom, that’s slavery
You’re a slave to your addiction
Your addiction makes freedom impossible
You have to really look to see this
Look at how manipulative those things are
How they tell you it’s cool, nice, chill, that you deserve this
Look at how everything you do is for the sake of this rush in your head
How many things there are you are attached to because of addiction
Look how it clutters your mind and keeps you away from being really free
Every time I realized this I experienced a disgust so powerful, I instantly quit
Today I deinstalled the X app from my phone