Addiction

Dear Blog:

I asked a DF this last week what he was addicted to and he said "work". That scared me because it can be just as harmful to your health as smoking.
We use to be addicted to smoking. Oh I only smoked 2-3 packs a WEEK. But it was still an addiction.
I thought of how I would have answered the same question if he would have asked me. I think I am addicted to love. To the Knight in shining armour, to the white horse and fairy tales. I knew two Knights in my life. One swept me away with love but his horse was lost when I need to be saved. The second Knight swept me away on his horse when I needed to get out of a bad situation. Only his horse got sick, other addictions took him away. But I will still always believe......
Why do we get addicted to something? Because it makes us feel good -
**Work - we have accomplished something. Getting the raise, gotten the pat on the back, getting the new title, getting the rush of the kill of the latest project
**Cigarettes - the last smoke of the day, the relaxing time it gives you to light up, the old movies of smoking after making love, the glamorous way we grew up seeing movie stars smoking,
**Drugs - again it makes you feel good and lets you forget the problems you are having
**Love - nothing else needs to be said about it.
**Chocolate - the melting in your mouth and the smoothness of it on your tongue the rush the sugar gives you

But then there is the let down from the addiction. No matter what the addiction is there is the fall, the crash.
The end of the project at work is always a let down. Now you have to start all over with a new one.
The Knight falling off the pedestal. We wouldnt have music if love was perfect. Think of all the songs that are about falling in and the lost love.
Drugs and cigarettes take away from your health and that cant be good coming down from not having it any longer.
Chocolate well it just adds calories and weight and then you have to get make a new addiction of exercising.

So, dear Blog, watch what you get addicted to because some are very harmful to your health. They are all hard on your heart. Some will permanently harm in and others will break it.

Prayers for tonight....
Family that might have additions, family who has big hurtles to climb, for all the Knights out there that they dont fall off their horses and a special prayer for a DF who told me that I should listen to my puppies first