By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- Swiss alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher Paracelsus is known for his many quotes one of them says that all things are poison and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.
- We should try and not exceed certain quantities of whatever we intake to avoid getting harmed. Many are times when we become addicts unknowingly as we joke with whatever we are doing only to be unable to come out of the trap. The trap in your path could be developing close personal relationship with people of questionable character and getting persuaded by them to try what they usually do in an attempt to verify whether good or bad through the way that it will affect you.
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way .……… Lucretius on the Nature of Things
The condition of doing something to an extent that you get used to it that you cannot stay without practicing it as it has become part of your life is called addiction.
Addiction may be of various types from food, alcohol, work, sex, exercise, spiritual obsession, internet, pornography and drugs among many others. Some addictions are good among these we have exercising, meditating, dancing, knitting, cooking, painting and performing music where others addictions are bad for example alcohol, spiritual obsession, pornography, drugs, tobacco, nicotine and gambling among many others.
Swiss alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher Paracelsus is known for his many quotes one of them says that all things are poison and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.
We should try and not exceed certain quantities of whatever we intake to avoid getting harmed. Many are times when we become addicts unknowingly as we joke with whatever we are doing only to be unable to come out of the trap. The trap in your path could be developing close personal relationship with people of questionable character and getting persuaded by them to try what they usually do in an attempt to verify whether good or bad through the way that it will affect you.
There are people who do not care of their health safety by eating food prepared in a dirty environment and drinking contaminated water. Not all times they get sick for doing this making some of them to fear dirt no more. However not in all instances they get lucky at times they feel sick, some die while others are hospitalized experiencing pain and incurring huge bills. Once they get healed they are advised to stop living in dirty environs to avoid facing such dire circumstances in the future. An overall look at the ordeal you will notice that they are regretful for risking their lives in the past by consuming contaminated food.
Some of the thieves in your midst, in jails or those who are in hiding for fear of being prosecuted started the vice by being mere friends to some prominent thieves, later on developed attitude of testing whether they can be easily caught eventually ended up doing like their trainers even perfecting the strategies taught.
Many alcohol and tobacco addicts start consuming them as an imitation of what their peers are doing, continue the intake over time unfortunately end up unable to rescue themselves from the trap once they become addicts . In fact they feel bad and generate hatred to anyone trying to dissuade them from imbibing alcohol or smoking as there is a kind of relief effect that they feel once they get accustomed to these substances.
In year 2020 in many countries across the world Kenya being one of them most people were forced to work from home as covid-19 which had broken up in the last quarter of the previous year spread at a fast rate to an extent that World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in the month of January and two months later a global pandemic.
There were high cases of domestic violence as couples stayed together at home some of the reasons being that some who had got used to run away from their family responsibilities could no longer be able to do it as they have nowhere to hide as they social joints had been closed. They felt oppressed and not ready to face their significant others for prolonged periods especially engaging in discussions so they opted for violence so as to avoid being held accountable.
Others who married partners who they did not really like had a rough period. This happened as they saw someone vulnerable took advantage of them by pretending to have fallen in love with them, over time they perfected the art of pretending to be in love becoming addicts eventually getting married but their preference for certain values that their marriage partner do not possess forced them to go and look for some other lovers outside their matrimonial homes and once they find them they got happy and ready to marry them. With the new catch they try to disassociate with current marriage partners by engaging in unending conflicts.
If you do not like any character in a potential marriage partner better to inform that person to change the bad habit for the close relationship to continue. If able to do so, go on with the relationship. However if that person is not ready to change quit from the relationship otherwise continuing with it will make you addict eventually marrying someone with characters that you do not prefer, thereafter getting into conflicts and divorce leading to hurting others, wastage of time and money.
When you see someone close to you whether colleague at work, schoolmate, blood relative or anyone who can take heed of your advice going astray by engage in anything that can result in to negative addiction hurry up and dissuade him to avoid being in such a situation which discontinuing him from it would be a difficult task, mentally straining, time wasting and wastage of monetary resources.
It is advisable to avoid engaging with anything that you feel you do not want to associate with in the long term to minimize your chances of getting hooked in those actions that would be difficult for you to disengage in.
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