Addiction

Dear People,

I just finished reading a journal on google about addiction. Yes. This time they compare World of Warcraft with cocaine. Then a thought occur to me, why we like to criticize addiction? And then an answer just come to me; oh we criticize it because we need it.

We all live in this world with the need inside each of us. We all want something, in another word, we are all addicted to something. Why? How? I dont know. But that how we are. If I have to list one of the characteristics that we, homosapien, have but not other animals, addiction will be one of them. And yet we criticize it. In this blog I will show that addiction is need for our lives, then go on and try to answer the question why we always criticize it. At the end I will open a hypothesis that we all criticize wat we need, wat we want.

I - To be or not to be

Addiction, what is it? According to Dr Micheal Leon, chairman of UCI biology deparment, addction is the feeling of craving a certain type of drug after we repeatly used it. To further extend, addction is the craving for a certain type of action after we repeatly do it. It happens every where in every day in our lives. Sometimes we tend to use the word that we invted for certain condition regardless the application of that word for almost others.

Let's talk about death. Most of us assume that death is when the metabolism of certain living thing stop. That is not wrong, but it's not quite complete. We can expand the meaning of death into further more places such as in life. Someone is dead does not necessarily that one stops breathing. Some people live a death life without recognizing it. We wake up, go to work, back to lunch, go to work, back home, watch TV, and sleep. The routine repeats everyday. You live a life with no ambition, no passion. That's another extension of death.

So addiction is not quite a word just can be used for drugs. If you glance over everybody in a day, you will see addiction everywhere. Let's talk about coffee. How many times did you hear someone say, oh I can not fuction well without coffee. Now I know that you are saying, inside your head, coffee has cafeine, it's addicted. Yes, but how about food. Do you remember the last time that you have to go to certain restaurants, or cook certain disks that you really want to eat. My friend, to me, that's addiction. It may be a mild form, but still addiction. There are many other things can give you addiction such as games, shopping, works. People who has a high level of addiction to those thing get the same weird looking. They are all quite anti social, weird, and lack skill of communitcation.

So addiction is bad? No. It's not bad. It is what we can differentiate ourselves to other animals. Other mammals, insects, fishes do not have addiction. At least they do not seek for addiction. What do I mean by seeking for addiction? We all want to feel good. Whatever can makes us feel good, we want to do it again with more extreme. That's why when we are addicted to something, we just might not be able to stop because we always want more. Due to that reason, addiction is one of the thing that make us human.

Imagine a world with no addiction to sex. What will happen to the human world without addiction to sex? We will follow the natural selection rules and have sex once a year. That's boring. I know you would say that. In fact it is. Even in certain polygamy animals they do not have sex quite often as human does. Addiction to sex give people the craving for more and better sex. It borns affair. With the affair thing, we have more recombination of DNA, and therefore we can have better traits.

Imagine a world withouht workoholic. People will just do whatever they have to to get pay. There is not competition in work, therefore, we stay where we are. If we do not have some people who spend 12 hours in their labs, or working their asses off in the office, we would not have today. We would not know about DNA, proteins, spaceship, nuclear reaction. If we lack of people who sit infront of the computer almost 24 hours, we would not have the internet, the LAN. Addiction makes us great and create the whole new side of animal. Of course an animal will need more than that to be, or better than, human, but if they are human, they would have addiction.

II - Lost in translation

We always complain. That's part of our nature. Human never really satisfy with watever we have in life. Sorry folks, if we do Buddha will not exist. I am not saying that it's bad, but just want to state that it is. Complaining somehow becomes our autonomic response to anything in life. Our self-confidence always lead us to criticism.

There is nothing in this world can be better than us. We say that to ourselves almost every day. It becomes so common that we use it as a stair rod to clime up the stair of life. That's why someotime we tend to criticize something that we did not think it throuh. And addiction is part of it.

Our single, narrow view gives us the bad sad face of addiction. It's bad. It destroys a life. It takes away life. Yes my friends. People who use too much cocaine and get overdose are bad, or maybe. But that's only the reason for that. Some people really need that kind of addiction to get their jobs done because simply they are not a *%&6king god. We criticize it simply because we only a side of the problem. We criticize it because we only thing about the bad side of the problem. We criticize them because can not be that person.

III - Hannibal the Cannibal

Yes, we always complain. About our cars, our dresses, or even ourselves. It becomes part of our lives. We can not live without it. And so all the things we complain are all wat we need. May be it's an extreme, but we might still need it. Lets take homosexuality as an example. A lot of stupid, hard headed, devoured Christianity people out there are complaining about how bad homosexuality is. But they do not know they are living and helped with a lot of many homosexuality. You can call it an bias, but bacteria are homosexual. And so they help us everyday in our normal day life. May be bacteria is not quite a convincing evidience because you may tell me that they are asexual, but it happens in the normal world too. If you can live in the country that dogs can run around like Vietnam, you can see that all quite often. So are they bad dogs? No. And do not forget that in history there are many great homosexual people who are way greater than orthers. Moreover, if u criticize homosexual, can you please tell me what will you think about 30 years old man who never have any women in his life, walk around and live with 12 other guys. My friend to me that's gay.

So is that we criticize everything that we need or we need to criticize everything? I lay the answer to you my friends.