ADDICTIONS

The all-boys rock band SimplePlan has a song on addiction. It goes something like “Am addic…. Am addicted to you”. Most of us sang along to the song, or let me say a good number of us. And the budding rock band made their millions on the Album.  Clean cut deal; everybody walked home happy. Then we all forget the lines and we go back to our daily familiar routines labeled LIFE.

But Am the kind of guy who takes my music seriously, I like to listen to it word by word. I like to dissect the lyrics into bits and try and come up with a meaning to what each line say. Weird Huh? But that’s just me. ‘So what business does a serious-about-my-music guy like me have listening to Simpleplan?’ It’s that one word that caught my attention…… Addicted

See we all have addictions of our own. You might find this odd but am addicted to video games. My all time favorites are Need For Speed and FIFA 11. There’s something about the speed and torque in NFS or the Golden goals in FIFA that completes me in a way. When I’m stressed video games are my pain killers. And when am looking for energizers to psyche me up I don’t play small group games and all that; it’s my beloved video games on my laptop.

If you ask me that’s addiction right there; though it’s kind of a mild one. I don’t know what the Dictionary says but I’ll give my own words on Addiction. It can be good or bad; mild or severe. If your addiction is mild and can be called good you’re safe……. If yours fall on the other side of the play there are several things involved.

For the few years I’ve been around I’ve seen bad… and not just bad but Super-bad addictions. In my High school days I lost a few friends to Marijuana and Alcohol. I’ve seen people addicted to indecent movies and stuff. I’ve seen ‘deluded love’ addictions! Believe me; I think it’s the disease stalkers suffer from. What scares me about the addictions is not the before but the after. I’ve lost friends to addiction; families have broken apart because of addictions; people would do anything, even kill, to satisfy their insatiable addictions. So my question is ‘Why would a plant make one kill and make the other calm. Am told there is medical Marijuana that acts as a pain reliever; when weed became a Doctor!

Here is my final verdict on Addiction; it simply is a trap! A trap from the devil. He uses it to capture people he targets in this world. Addictions yield to addiction fulfillment which then leaves you with your senses or it has your brains fried. And what happens when you can’t think straight because of an addiction; the Devil has a workshop, period!

I can’t stop every Tom Dick and Harry from falling into addiction. Not when Peer pressure leads you to your first fatal try or Bad media makes some addictions seem ‘cool’. But if you ever got to read this get this straight….. Free your mind from the Devil’s grasp!