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]

Yah... but you bought something.... I detect a little admission in that apocryphal denial.... You don't have an Elvis commemorative plate do you?

[modesttreasure]

I was given a Columbus commemorative plate. It was from my second grade teacher and I was afraid she'd fail me if I didn't take it! She also bought me an expensive necklace and years later she came up to me and said, "I always knew there was something special about you." Should I worry?

[WES]

Uuuuh no. I was teasing Munetune about a commemorative plate, because I can't tell if her statement was pro-crying for Lady Di... or if she is being humoursly curt.

Did you not cry for Chrisopher Columbus? Don't be ashamed... we all did. ha ha.... And if Stone Cold Steve Austin retires from the WWF, I will probably go to the crying rally, make sure I am interviewed by a CNN crew there, and buy WWF speedos in his memory.... NOT!

[WES]

I would like to say that I love that "addiction" to the vortex concept, by Day.... I just didn't want to disrupt the flow of conversation above.... I will have to contemplate this concept further.

[daydreambeliever]

To expand a little further on my concept, I'll quote from the Great Teacher Joss Whedon, from the book of Buffy, Season 5, Ep 22 (and also Season 6, Ep 7 "once more with feeling - the musical")

The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.



I sometimes think this idea that you have to feel good encourages some of us to disengage from the world, to stop living in it and opt out of experiencing the fullness and richness of humanity. But the question for me then becomes, why come forth for the experience in the first place?

Not that I'm into self-flagellation either (or any flagellation really since it has been offered and I have declined..). It's more about balance and finding a way to be increasing an observer rather than a participant in the drama of the unwanted and use that as a stepping off place for creating more, both personally and for society.

[Patra ~ Deliberate Sifter]

oh...amen. self observation is it!

[Bernard]

Well some might disagree... The holy ones among us are too pure and centered and in allignment with their universal source..........



Of HYPOCRISY and judgementalism (is that a word?) !!! Hehe

Or maybe it is ignorance?!

[WES]

You know.... I like where you are going with this.... I think you are on the same page as me.

I think Tori was probably the best response.... No denial.... Just acceptance of her nature, and no offense taken.

[Hooked on Sparkles]

For me, and Wes and maybe some others know what I mean having glanced into some of the stuff I've been reading, I'm discovering that though there can be the feeling of being in the vortex, there is also blessed beauty in NOT feeling it, and feeling the "contrast." It's already been said here so well.

I am finding that I can go deeper into the "discomfort"/contrast and see it for what it is -- joy in disguise. Sounds a bit strange. And I can't say it happens every day -- at least not in a "miraculous" way, but I have seen that in some of my most "contrasting" moments, I have "dived" into the "bad" feelings and just observed them and really felt them...and it's been very amazing. It's not always that way, but there are times...and having done that, I come out on the other end feeling even better than ever.

It's a long explanation, but I believe we came here indeed to have this contrast, and that the contrast is purposeful and desirable -- and eventually we dive through so much of it that it no longer is so real to us. And at some point, we welcome the contrast/discomfort and even find joy in diving into it for the joy that comes out on the other side.

So those who are "holy" are those who are seeking at all costs to escape from the very thing that will lead them into the "vortex" they so long to be in.

And if their goal is to simply stay in the vortex all the time, well, how do they know what the vortex is unless they experience the contrast? Eventually, they become numb. I've been there, done that -- not so much in respect to the Law of Attraction, but many years ago in Christianity. I spent hours reading, and would kick myself to kingdom come (not knowing what I was doing) because I didn't feel good. I hated feeling bad. Long story...but common.

Now that I have been embracing feeling bad more these days (not that I always welcome it, by any means, but now I know what to do with it), I am feeling better more and more. I know I'm perfectly guiding myself (on a "source" level) and that every bit of contrast/discomfort I encounter is exactly what I need to experience, and that by diving into it as I choose, I become free...I don't live in dread of the "bad," I just live, and trust that what comes along is just perfect.

Ask me again tomorrow, LOL.

[Patra ~ Deliberate Sifter]

this is my favorite concept from abe right now, mj. i love it when you dissect it and express it. loving the contrast...and contrast is just "variety"..so ...loving the contrast...the good, that bad, and the stuff that makes you cry.

sometimes..i'm there. even when i'm crying.

and sometimes....i'm not. and then i come complaining.

[ruredfox]

Addicted to PI?

[WES]

Yup.... Many of us are.... No doubt.