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EMOTION: MOTHER OF ADDICTION
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Emotion drugs us into believing that
emotion is right for us. That is why we cannot question the emotional way of life;
any more than the drug addict can or will question his support. Some people can
successfully get away with existing emotionally; adding emotion to emotion to
keep from seeing their mistakes — even those errors arising from emotion
itself.
These people can manage to see what they want to see and hear what they
want to hear without ever touching drugs. But some of us can't.
Other people, though they may be just as
badly caught up in an emotional way of life, are a little bit too sensitive and
aware to be able to play the game of emotion with the same gusto.
They may not
know what's bugging them, but they know that something is, and they don't want
any part of it. These are the people who turn to drugs or some other form of
addiction for relief (And those others, the emotion addicts, help drive them to
it!).
Because emotion acts as an opiate on our
minds, we rarely see that our habit of reacting emotionally to every person and
thing and circumstance is the major cause of all our personal and interpersonal
problems.
We are aware only of the anxiety and pain it produces in us, and how
desperately we crave to be relieved of these symptoms. When something appears
to provide us with that relief, we identify it as being something
"good" for us, of course, and it doesn't even occur to us to ask whether it got to the real root of the problem.
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