when you give up an addiction or an attachment, you have-to deal with the stuff that the addiction/attachment was coping for (or suppressing).
maybe it’s loneliness, maybe it’s depression, maybe it’s overwhelm-ment, maybe it’s tinnitus, maybe it’s just “numbing yourself out,” and escaping from the world and the ‘new-s’ around us, but the bottom line is… when the addiction (the substance, the person, the thing [e.g. running]) is gone, you’re going to have to deal with the situation.
…and that is why it is soooooo hard to give-up an addiction or attachment… and why it is soooooo easy to go back.
one course of action (though, admittedly, this is not an easy task) is to substitute a more positive addiction/attachment that copes (even better?) with the original dilemma/challenge.
why isn’t this substitution easy? because (if it was), we’d be doing it already.
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[i] martino, j. (10-7-1.2024). johnny’s got a mask on. book 120: i saw it on television! © 2024 by j. martino.
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