07-10-2012, 11:30 AM
(07-10-2012, 10:38 AM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Addiction is a bad word, adjustment is a good word.
They are exactly the same in the end.
You're addicted to oxygen.. A very bad quality for an outer space monkey...
Imagine however you're a space monkey that totally lives without oxygen and you suddenly get put into an oxygen rich environment... You might actually catch fire.
If you're human, be human... Adjust to all the things like sex, food and sports. Partake in all those things just realize they're not you and there will be no problem. You're in far deeper trouble when you try to live your life as if you're not a part of it.
I am going to miss this planet if it goes away. I consider my "addiction" to it an achievement, not a failure. I am attached, I linked with this planet, I am a part of it it's water runs through my veins. This is not a bad thing...
I used to be different, unadjusted, unadapted, I've got the scars to prove it.
Adjustment is balance, balance is what the ancients teach us is necessary to moving on. Moving on is what you acknowledge yourself to be doing.
Nobody said it was a bad thing to appreciate the experience we have here. I have never said anything like that. But even you have acknowledged in your statement the need to move one.
I would not try to tell the family of an addict that it is nothing more than an adjustment that they should appreciate.