b121 (11.30-1.2024): you are NOT an addict

you are not an addict [i]
by notta dicted

you say you’re an addict, but i say to you “be free”
one thing that you don’t have: addictive personality
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·       when you walk through a u.s.a. grocery store, why are you not ‘addicted’ (attached, drawn-to, obsessed, etc.) by all of the items therein?
 
·       think about it: you pass by dozens and dozens of different kinds of fruits/vegetables, meats, fish, candies, ice cream, magazines, deli-goods, gift cards, cigarettes, alcohol, etc., etc., etc.  most of it (thousands upon thousands of items), you just stroll-on-by… without attachment.

contemplate that.

 
·       even a 2-pack-a-day smoker who inhales the cigarette for a full six seconds and repeats that process ten times for each of 40 cigarettes… is still only ‘smoking’ for 40 minutes per day, or a significantly insignificant .03^th of his/her day.  40/1440 = .02777777 or 2.7%.
 
instead of labeling the 2-pack-a-day smoker as an ‘addict,’ i hereby wave my magic wizard wand and decree that “you are a non-smoker …with a wee-bit of a smoking habit.”
 
now… let’s get to work on that habit.
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[i] martino, j. (11.30-1.2024). you are not an addict. book 121: opportunity (on deck). © 2024 by j. martino.