Drugs, relationships, drama queens, sex... we're ALL addicted, like it or not

[WES]

".... I don't care who you are... we're ALL addicted."-- The crazy blonde spiritualist from "What the Bleep Do We Know?"

I was cutting an apple, with an inappropriate knife, and, in all my awkwardness, one quarter of the apple slipped out (and I felt the blade almost slice my finger), and I picked it up and slammed it in the trash ... and I quickly exclaimed, "F-[expletive]!"

This got me thinking back to the scene in "What the Bleep...?", where the girl gets wine spilled on her dress, and then she starts to whine.... The subject was peptides and how we are addicted to these behaviors... and since "thoughts are things" we create these little things/incidents in order to appease our addiction to the whining or whatever feeling....

So, as I sat down here with my 3 quarters of apple, this got me thinking about all the "drama" posts that come up as I got online at PI....

Just like I am addicted to making awkward mistakes and having an opportunity to utter my expletive, and blame the knife, and feel anger... perhaps people are addicted to there little dramas also.

Perhaps people can look at their desire to "get their ex back", or whatever, and we can say, "Hey... it isn't my ex I want, it is the drama around all this, and I am addicted."

No matter what the lack is... perhaps we are addicted to the little game of lack too much, and so we get more of the same lack?

I mean... Do we really want our ex back, or are we addicted to the drama? Do we really want "this or that", or do we just enjoy complaining about our lack of it?

And here is a tough one, do people, on some level, want disasters to strike so they can be involved? For example, when Lady Di died, I was watching the news, and people (on the streets of America) who had never met her, nor cared about her before (or didn't even know who she was), were shown sobbing and being melodramatic.... Then they all went out and bought commemorative plates with her likeness on it.

Could it be we enjoy our lack on some level?

[WES]

Chris Rock has a good standup, where he is talking about these thugs that brag about having been to prison... and then he says, "You ain't suppose to go to prison you ignorant @#$%$# &^$%#@!"

But it has become a badge of honor to go through this negativity.... It actually feels good to them.

[WES]

How did I get here from cutting an apple?.... I forget.

[Leeanne]

Apple .... Chris Rock ...... I see the connection ..... sure .......

[WES]

ha ha.... Good one.... See?.... I knew you had it in ya' to play this way.

[Hooked on Sparkles]

Those who head for prison, I'd say, don't have much else to do. Yep, it's a badge of honor for many -- we all tend to take after our peers, so those of the "prison" set are doing the same. They "belong." Obviously, something about our penal system isn't working very well, eh? Better to put them in a hog pen in a big confinement setup -- that would do the trick. But see, they'd have all the food they needed, and their latrine would be right underneath them, and it wouldn't matter if they ever took a shower, because they'd just stink anyway. I've worked in a business where hog farmers would come in now and then. I don't think they realized just how pervasive the smell was. Tee-hee.

Did you know that pigs love apples?

[WES]

I don't think you have ever been around gangsta's, MJ.... You can blame the system if you want, but there are two different types of sociopaths... violent, and non-violent... or mild and extreme....

The real problem isn't all "the system".... The real problem starts at home, where they breed these sociopaths.

[Patra ~ Deliberate Sifter]

abraham says that it starts with not letting children express anger...eventually...under enough durress, the human goes from a child unallowed to express anger...to one who does, and doesn't care what anyone thinks about it, and feels better in doing it. not aligned, obviously...but better. and stuck, of course. very stuck. they could keep going and feel better still...but..i'm not judging.

[David]

Perhaps people can look at their desire to "get their ex back", or whatever, and we can say, "Hey... it isn't my ex I want, it is the drama around all this, and I am addicted."

You could be on to something!!!!

I loved that woman in the movie. I was reading The Power Of Subconscious Mind & a story of this old woman who had so many different illness' and was looked after and visited by her children every day. And the guy who wrote it explained to her if she got 'health' into her subconscious mind, she could be cured. And she said she didn't want to otherwise her family wouldn't visit her, so she put up with the pain because it meant she could have her family around her. It made me think about how some people may make themselves ill in order to get attention...or are addicted to the drama around it all.

[WES]

Exactly!............... That's what enablers do... they join in the "fun"... even though looking from another angle it may not seem very funny. People, including myself, create problems where there are none... most of the time not even knowing that we do it.

[Hooked on Sparkles]

But think about it -- why do people want attention? See, the layers of reasoning and emotional need go deep. People get addicted not because they enjoy it as much as they feel something's amiss internally --

people who want attention are lacking something...want to feel better...

addiction isn't a "fault," it's a symptom of a deeper issue.

[WES]

Well there you go.... Stop denying it....

I am not sure what step it is, but isn't the first one, overcoming denial that there is a problem?

[Patra ~ Deliberate Sifter]

i want attention sometimes.
what's my problem, aside from having no life...and not actually wanting one? i'm raising kids here...as soon as i get them in school i guess i'll do something else...naw...i'll probably STILL be at home on the computer..unless i'm shopping.

i suppose when i have more money i'll vacation..maybe even often...

maybe then i won't be looking for attention?

i don't get it...i thought that we were social creatures? that we have a basic need to communicate and express some level of caring for others...or...that's when we are missing something. oh wait..giving attention is healthy...receiving it is ...a problem?

i only show up here for attention.


i had no idea i was so twisted.

lol.

glad somebody told me.