It turned out I was worshipping the teapot, instead of drinking the tea. Once I thought I had found a way out of this cycle, but it too became a dependency.

And we find it hard, if not impossible, to admit this fact to ourselves. Sometimes the supplement is so harmful that it destroys us and/or others.ДЄ person is considered well adjusted if his addictions are not too harmful, or are widely regarded as beneficial activities.ДЇew are strong enough to be aware of their dependencies, all the more so to successfully control them.Д«ut, whether we are considered well adjusted or not, the great majority of us are always on the run. If we're lucky, the supplement is less harmful than the original dependency. Often, when we realize we are too dependent on something, we overcome it by simply supplementing it with another dependency. This may be quite a lot of very ordinary things we do on a daily basis, such as watching a lot of television, getting very angry at things we cannot control, shopping to much, eating too much, or too little, writing a blog, reading blogs.ДЄnything can be seen as an addiction if we use it to escape dealing with life. We can see ourselves as addicted to anything we make use of to escape ourselves. Addictions don't necessarily have to be illegal activities or things universally recognized as unhealthy or wrong.

For most people, I believe, life is a continuous process of dealing with addictions.

Shalom hanoch mashiach lo ba