The Easy One

Ahhh - this will be a piece of cake. Just about anyone can relate to addictions by looking at someone else who is obviously addicted. Part of the growing group of socially unacceptable addicts. Just imagine walking down the sidewalk, minding your own business, when you come across this fellow:



What are your thoughts? What do you do? What can you do? What should you do? These are some tough questions, but as I said, this is going to be the easy one - so, there won't be any quizzes or final exams here. Fortunately there are some who will take on the challenge and do their part to offer help. Last night, I talked to an old friend who had just come home from an AA meeting where he celebrated 24 years of sobriety from alcohol . . . congratulations Bob!!

I went to an AA meeting once . . . OK, I admit that it was just to get out of my housing unit when in jail a while back . . . but I still went, and while there the opportunity came for me to introduce myself. In the spirit of the meeting, my introduction went something like this: "Hi, my name is Neil . . . and I am an ADDICT." It's true. At that time I was addicted to work . . . but that story is for another time.

So, by now we are getting the picture, I hope. Addicts are those people who are hopelessly enslaved to socially unacceptable behaviors. And, they look like these people:
or, maybe:




My hope is that you can still say that you are not addicted to anything and send me a comment explaining why it is UR not Addicted 2 anything.

(remember, my premise I that we are ALL addicted to something . . . I would like to be proven wrong)