The feeling of craving. It’s a huge one. Yet thousands of years ago we felt more intense feelings than these. Due to our comfortable lifestyles now a slight agitation within us will move us to compulsively act even if we know we shouldn’t. Life isn’t all about the pleasures and the comfortability. It’s also about the fears, the pressures, the unimaginable feelings we can’t resist. But if one doesn’t give the substance power over their mind (constantly trying not to do something) it is a much easier ride. What do you think?
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Just what I needed to read right now…thanks!! Just passed day 3!
What is strange is as “comfortable” and “convenient” our First-World lives have become, stress and anxiety has skyrocketed. We are the most medicated (prescribed and Self-) in the history of civilization. Everyone has a diagnosis (prescribed and Self-), which many use as leverage to indulge in all manner of self-destructive behavior, and never before have the means of this self-destruction been so readily available. Alcohol. Drugs. Food. Porn. Gambling…
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