Emotion
drugs us into believing the 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.
Addiction
may begin with some simple remedy, like candy, aspirin or a doctor's
prescription or just a little drink to be "sociable”. From then on, it's
just a matter of degree and we go down one step at a time, adjusting to each
level as we come to it, no questions asked. We rationalize all of them. Our
pills and our snorts are our friends they make us feel secure. A little is good
and a little more is better yet; so our taste for them increases and as we
spend more time on gratifying that taste, problems begin to pile up in other
areas of our lives and we may turn to hard drugs to escape them.
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