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Do You Love Yourself?
After reading and screening an earlier intel here regarding the staggering increase in prescription drug addiction, I intuitively felt that I wanted to write this little response (for lack of a better word). Just about everyone, if not EVERYONE, who is addicted to SOMETHING, be it prescription drugs, illegal drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, sex, compulsive spending (the list is seemingly endless), has that addiction BECAUSE he or she cannot face some feeling/emotion or aspect in their lives. No one likes feeling bad—about anything. Everything we do in this physical dimension is either to seek pleasure or avoid pain. When we cannot get those feelings of self-worth and self-assurance and self-love from within, we then seek the good feelings outside of ourselves, which is, of course, an impossible search. We can never seek our “goodness” from “without.” It must ALWAYS come from “within.” Some of the major reasons people turn to addictive substances/activities is because many of us were “taught” that thinking of ourselves first is selfish or that seeking a career that WE might like is the wrong path. Other reasons people turn to addictive behavior are extremely individualistic and varied (such as treatment from abusive parents or ridicule at school from classmates); these are also huge contributors to our idea of our self-worth and our need for approval. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could figure out a way to know, deep within, that we are okay and lovable and loved without turning to destructive addictions? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we didn’t believe that “another person” will make us happy! What a burden is placed on that person if you honestly think that “he” or “she” will make you happy. YOU have to make you happy. It doesn’t matter if your dad or your mom or your sister or your brother or your uncle or your grandmother was a lawyer and therefore YOU must be too. Just because your mom’s favorite color is green doesn’t mean YOUR favorite color has to be green. The entire world tries to pound square pegs into round holes, and it just doesn’t work! We need to learn to honor our own feelings and our own likes and dislikes. When you are an adult, no one knows what is best for you, but YOU! Loving yourself and doing that which makes YOUR heart sing are the only ways you will ever have inner joy and peace. And when you have inner joy and peace, you will never need to look outwardly (addictive behavior or other people) for your good feelings.
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Contributor's Note
In addition to being an artist, I am a freelance writer and find that diversity in my writing assignments as well as doing the research for the articles is a rewarding way to spend my time. Not only does it build upon my own knowledge base, it also gives me a newer awareness or broader viewpoint about topics which I may have shunned, therefore providing me with an acceptance or tolerance of all people and their ideas.
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This intel was contributed by Oceana
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