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There ia a good article I found on the Fortune.com website about our little addictions. here are a few paragraphs:
"That's how it is with habits. They turn into addictions, grab hold of you, and don't let you go until you break them, if you can, if you choose to, if it's even advisable, which a lot of the time it isn't, you know. Who would we be without a bouquet of physical and emotional dependencies?
A lot of people are snarky about guys like Bob and me, who suck up perhaps a bit too much vodka, gin, sangria, Scotch, or wine on any given evening, just as we all are about the poor slobs who abuse their veins or noses with more debilitating stuff, particularly if they have no expense accounts to feed their habits. But the addictions we enjoy are many and varied. Most of us have more than one and feed our list every day. They make it possible, in some way, for us to go on.
There are the cravings to which all of us are prey. Food, for instance. And water. But the weirdnesses to which our contemporary flesh is heir? Get out of here. Like the need for the same Cobb salad each day? Or halibut, taken in tiny squares devoid of sauce? That's a form of dementia. So is our need for water that comes in a bottle. Just look at everybody walking down the street with their stupid bottles of water. Aren't we a bunch of losers?"
I have my little addictions. Those Frisk breath mints. I use way too many of those. Ice-cream. Even in the middle of winter I gobble it down. TV. I watch much too much of it. Morning showers. It's my coffee and I spend too much time in there waking up. I'm sure I could go on and on which I don't think is such a good thing.
"That's how it is with habits. They turn into addictions, grab hold of you, and don't let you go until you break them, if you can, if you choose to, if it's even advisable, which a lot of the time it isn't, you know. Who would we be without a bouquet of physical and emotional dependencies?
A lot of people are snarky about guys like Bob and me, who suck up perhaps a bit too much vodka, gin, sangria, Scotch, or wine on any given evening, just as we all are about the poor slobs who abuse their veins or noses with more debilitating stuff, particularly if they have no expense accounts to feed their habits. But the addictions we enjoy are many and varied. Most of us have more than one and feed our list every day. They make it possible, in some way, for us to go on.
There are the cravings to which all of us are prey. Food, for instance. And water. But the weirdnesses to which our contemporary flesh is heir? Get out of here. Like the need for the same Cobb salad each day? Or halibut, taken in tiny squares devoid of sauce? That's a form of dementia. So is our need for water that comes in a bottle. Just look at everybody walking down the street with their stupid bottles of water. Aren't we a bunch of losers?"
I have my little addictions. Those Frisk breath mints. I use way too many of those. Ice-cream. Even in the middle of winter I gobble it down. TV. I watch much too much of it. Morning showers. It's my coffee and I spend too much time in there waking up. I'm sure I could go on and on which I don't think is such a good thing.
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