Sadly, for many people it becomes a substitute for living. They literally mortgage their lives. That would be okay if you could pay back life, but you can't. Once it is gone then it is gone.
It is the same with drugs of addiction.
The thing that upsets me most is how little we learn about living life. We get blasted with advertisements telling us how to waste it, duped by religions imploring us to deny it, and conned into selling it to someone else, but rarely does anything get said about actually living. Buddhist philosophy comes close, but even that seems to miss the point.
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branchandroot
Re: Consuming.
Date: 2008-04-07 07:52 am (UTC)It is the same with drugs of addiction.
The thing that upsets me most is how little we learn about living life. We get blasted with advertisements telling us how to waste it, duped by religions imploring us to deny it, and conned into selling it to someone else, but rarely does anything get said about actually living. Buddhist philosophy comes close, but even that seems to miss the point.