Well said. The biggest addiction I've had in my life was always video games. When I got older and wiser I realized when I was a kid, video games were an incredible escape from my parents' bad marriage and it always stuck with me. Anytime life got rough and started choking me out, I'd turn to video games. Then as I started going into adulthood the addiction became exercise. I've liberally smoked cigarettes, drank a lot of booze, done my fair share of cocaine but none of those things hooked me like video games & exercise. I did those things because of the social elements of a party phase as a young adult. I often wondered if I could ever not be addicted to something. Of course, that all changed when I had a random spiritual revelation. Now I'm no longer addicted to anything because of a realization that life is hard, it's supposed to be hard and you're not always supposed to have a good time. Not even mostly have a good time. Life happens and you're supposed to cherish the good times & memories, but mostly life is about force marching through the adversity & growing. We only get one shot at it. That realization really helped me and specifically helped me shed the notion of what "happiness" is supposed to be. Plenty of happiness was abound in my life but I always wanted more.

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