Its close to midnight, and before i packed up for a short getaway; i want to pen down this post for a recent conference i was watching on a video by Shivani Kumari.
I posted a question on my Facebook status 12 hours ago " What is the biggest addiction?" just curious about the responses i might receive. Some said " chocolate", " shopping", " air", " stalking Facebook postings"...
Among all those varieties displays of addiction--- in my personal view, the biggest addiction is "addiction" itself. Whatever we are addicted to, doesn't matter. It can be drugs, smoking, desserts, food, games... some are even addicted to anger or being in depression.
Any form of addiction that we have, can control us like a puppet.
In the video i was watching by Shivani, interestingly pointed out that the biggest addiction today--- is using people's lies to feel good about ourselves. Many times we tend to rely on people's opinions to decide how we should feel.
As praises can be as venomous as criticism--- we tend to get affected by either one of them, isn't it?
Say, if someone said i've a beautiful haircut--- my level of " feeling good" shoot up rocket sky.
If another person said my haircut is really bad--- my level of " feeling good" from that high, thumped straight down to the ground.
So, now i'm confused how i should feel, happy or not happy? And i go around as for more opinions.
When does public opinions becomes so important to us?
When we don't know ourselves well enough.
When we don't know ourselves deep enough, we lost ground.
We get shaken by others easily. We copy what other people are doing, we lost our originality of being who we are.
Addiction is not a bad thing, or horrible--- if we know how to pull and release them within our grip. We become slaves to addictions---- if we lost grounding and being led by it.
For instance, i remembered a short discussion with a friend earlier back on an addiction for acceptance socially.
Personally, i never agree to the response as " politically correct answer". Which a friend was telling me that we have to sometimes... or most of the time to response in " politically correct answer"--- in another meaning to me is to be a copy cat, even if you disagree deep down inside.
Honestly, its either i appreciate with sweet words, or i'll speak my silence with a sweet smile.
I posted a question on my Facebook status 12 hours ago " What is the biggest addiction?" just curious about the responses i might receive. Some said " chocolate", " shopping", " air", " stalking Facebook postings"...
Among all those varieties displays of addiction--- in my personal view, the biggest addiction is "addiction" itself. Whatever we are addicted to, doesn't matter. It can be drugs, smoking, desserts, food, games... some are even addicted to anger or being in depression.
Any form of addiction that we have, can control us like a puppet.
As praises can be as venomous as criticism--- we tend to get affected by either one of them, isn't it?
Say, if someone said i've a beautiful haircut--- my level of " feeling good" shoot up rocket sky.
If another person said my haircut is really bad--- my level of " feeling good" from that high, thumped straight down to the ground.
So, now i'm confused how i should feel, happy or not happy? And i go around as for more opinions.
When does public opinions becomes so important to us?
When we don't know ourselves well enough.
When we don't know ourselves deep enough, we lost ground.
We get shaken by others easily. We copy what other people are doing, we lost our originality of being who we are.
For instance, i remembered a short discussion with a friend earlier back on an addiction for acceptance socially.
Personally, i never agree to the response as " politically correct answer". Which a friend was telling me that we have to sometimes... or most of the time to response in " politically correct answer"--- in another meaning to me is to be a copy cat, even if you disagree deep down inside.
Honestly, its either i appreciate with sweet words, or i'll speak my silence with a sweet smile.
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