Everyone's an addict

You see it all the time "How to live a better life" "How to loose those last 25lbs" "How to give up control"..ect. There is a book, show, pill or cure for everything nowadays. I have come to the conclusion that many of us have addictions that we dont care to admit. Everyone has something that is hard to give up, whether you struggle with control, being a workaholic, lazyness, eating too much or too little, self esteem, always needing someone ect we all have issues that instead of dealing with them head on we chose other things to fill their place. All of our baggage is easier to look to something that distracts us instead of facing the fact that we are broken in some form. It's easier to hide being our work than to face the fact that we have insecurities about being successful, it's easier to work out than deal with the fact that life's issues can get tough, it's easier to drink away the pain than to recognize we have been hurt. Even good addictions can take a nasty turn if we dont pay close attention to what we're hiding behind. Working out for example is something great until it become how you deal with your troubles. Working hard at your job is respectable until it becomes how to measure your success in life. To my knowlege we all have ghosts in our closets and things from our past that casue us to hide instead of going through the painful work to heal. In that case we all are addicts of some type. Some addictions are looked down on more than others but when it comes down to it we all use masks to hide our pain in fear of letting people know we have a weakness. But in our weakness we can heal.