I’m wondering how many people do you know that don’t have any unhealthy addiction?

People are trapped in addictions that have been created in their youth.

Addictions are regular habits.

They are so many rules around the world what is allowed by law in our life.

We aren't allowed to drink soft alcohol until we are 16/18 years old. We aren't allowed to drink hard alcohol until we are 18/21 years old. We aren't allowed to smoke tobacco until we are 16 years old. We aren't allowed to do any kind of drugs, although in some countries/cities marijuana is allowed by the age of 16.

You will grow up and see the facts. In reality a big amount of the younger population will not have difficulties breaking the law. As soon as tobacco, alcohol, food and any type of drugs came into this world young teenagers explored and experimented. Can you try to stop it? Sure! Will it be a success? No idea.

I started to experiment when I was almost 12 years old. Some people may find this young and I agree. The sad part about it is that somewhere on this planet children will be even younger than I was. If I look now at my own lifestyle at the age of 22, I already feel trapped in some addictions. The past 10 years of my young life, I've been in contact with alcohol, tobacco, medication, soft drugs, hard drugs and psychedelic drugs. To be honest I didn't explore them all at once, every 2/4years I explored something different, it all started with some medication, alcohol, tobacco and there where times I've used them all in one night. In those nights reality was far away.

I had some lovely times throughout my years of experimenting, while having no idea how my body or mind were having side-effects. As soon as the nine year anniversary of some of my addictions came along, after a lot of dark days, I realised that it was time to open my eyes and see what my life is about without them. After all I'm a human who is looking forward to the furture, the last thing I want is that I can't live my own life freely because those addictions can keep me trapped for the rest of my life. That I won't be able to bring my child into this world as healthy as possible because I couldn't stop my addictions while beeing pregnant. That I can't give my mind/body what it deserves for the rest of my life because of my youth explorings that became addictions. That my addictions can affect the people I love because by the end of the day it isn't healthy to poison any relationship because you carry/bring toxic with you everyday.

For a million different reasons humans will explore and find stuff out for themselves. The small amount of humans who didn't explore with any toxic like you and I did, they have my respect. They mostly have religion, strict parents or their own believe/will. An amount of people find it weird because they will never have these experiences with what we had when we drank some alcohol, smoked some tobacco, took any drugs or any other addictions.

My opinion? I have a lot of respect for somebody who lived their life without putting any toxic in their body/mind, they are the small amount of people who don't need to fight battles everyday caused by unhealthy addictions, those addictions that bring you far away from your real emotions. They are the people who are closer to the healthier version of themselves and that is exactly why some life time rules from any religion are in my opinion beautiful.

Is it easy? No way, it's an everyday battle no matter what kind of addiction or temptation it is. For myself it's a battle everyday, one day I will be so proud of myself that I've chosen to live my life in a healthy way.

I'm not writing this so people who drink one bottle of wine or a few beers a week will realise how much effect it has on their body/mind. I'm writing because I don't know how people keep there eyes closed while lying to themselves after they abuse their body/mind with alcohol, tobacco, medication, food or any drugs. Is it really because you are happy with your lifestyle that you don't want to treated yourself like you really deserve? As soon as humans don't feel alright, as soon as they feel happy, so many reason to take a moment from taking medications, while smoking a cigarette while drinking and/or after taking drugs because they are young or they just don't realise how many days it happens in their week.

It's too bad that the law forbids alcohol, tobacco and drugs till some age but society will always be happy that they can earn money from your unhealthy lifestyle. The habits you make while you are young will define your health. Search/find out what your addictions are from the last 5 years or longer and try to knock them down before it's too late. You will see that with every addiction there are so many side-effects because it's so toxic to your body/mind. Search for information how your addiction can affect you and the people around you. Everyday that goes by counts. Never stop the battle and make yourself proud.

21/07/2018