I have a few questions for the general public. What are your addicitions and how
do you deal? I have a few vices that I wish to rid myslef of, but I'm afraid
they're becoming a little bit more than a vice. Any ideas? Also, whats your
favorite thing to do for self-improvement. Mine is working out both my mind and
body. For exapmle I'm reading The Long Goodby. It's an in-between novelette for
GITS 1 and 2. The mater of cyberiztation and souls play heavily in it, and it
makes me think.
I'm addicted to the computer and to caffeine. I deal with the computer addiction
by getting all my necessary stuff (homework, chores, etc) done first before
sitting in front of the machine. As for caffeine, I'm trying to wean myself off
it by drinking tea, milk and water more. Both are tough to work around,
though.
Favorite method of self-improvement...hmm...talking to my mom, prayer, and
riding my bike.
Well like many people I am addicted to caffine didn't use to be until I started
drinking Mountain Dew which is just carbonated caffine. Worrying, man have I
wasted so much time doing that! Control I always have to be in control or know
what is going to happen at every given moment or I just make myself sick with
worry when things aren't going the way I think they should. I'm dealing with
something like that right now and I'm just hoping to get through it with some
semblence of sanity. I just wish I could control everyone, that would certainly
put my mind at ease. The
stuff that has helped me deal with my addictions is music, anime, and having
conversations with myself (of course those tend to keep me up at night lol!)
I would have to say that I am addicted to being alone. I don't much like being
with other people. I like spending time with myself and my dog. I get nervous
around other people. I don't know why that is, I just always have. And to avoid
that nervous feeling I just stay away from them. There are some people that I
feel comfortable around. People that I have known my whole life. But other then
that most people just give off a fake attitude of friendship.
I try to deal with this addiction by making myself be around people even though
I feel this way. I hope that someday I will stop feeling this way and stop
feeling nervous around people. I don't have much hope, but I have to try.
I use to be addicted to alcohol but now I just dont touch it and I stay away
from it,Im really addicted to shopping now not just for me but I'll buy things
for everyone just to buy things still trying to get that addiction under
control.
I know how you feel cheza2283 Im like that too only instead of a dog I have a
cat.
Anyway, I think the internet is by far the worst
addiction I have. It keeps me from studying, doing chores, going outside... It
keeps me from doing many things.
And yet, I am doing nothing to curb that addiction.
Except logging off earlier to do stuff.
hm addictions, good question ... if addictions are things you could never live
without then i'd say music, coffee, women, rubik's cube, depression ...
there are a few things i would also count as an addiction but i do them rather
unconscious ... like biting my fingernails and my fingers, like i would start
tearing off little pieces of flesh and i just do it because i'm nervous,
sometimes i don't even notice doing it. then i often crack my hands (every joint
of it), my spine (and when i say spine i mean everything up to the back of my
head), my toes, my knees, my hips ... i even crack my lower jaw and my elbows.
and that's a thing i really can't get rid of because i'd do it
instinctively.
and it's not only addicting but people tend to imitate you and start doing it,
too. like on day i was sitting in class and looked at two of my friends while
biting my fingernails ... and they were doing it, too and i was like WTF? then
one of my friends also cracks his joints a lot so sometimes we would make
cracking contests. the person who can crack the most joints wins.
kinda wired but at least i got an excuse. i can crack my lower jaw for example
because when i was younger my lower jaw stood infront of the upper jaw. then i
had to wear braces for YEARS until my lower jaw would move under my upper jaw.
this whole procedure helped a lot and the only thing remaining from it is a
sometimes accurung stiffness in my lower jaw every morning.
and i crack my hands because until the age of 14 i played the piano as a
upcoming pianist (what then came doesn't really matter) but pianists tend to
crack their fingers because if you are used to move your fingers intensively up
to 4 hours a day you'll often feel a kind of stiffness after not having played
for a long time etc.
the thing with the spine is also very simple, it also gets stiff, don't ask me
why. i'm not a very sportif person and alway tended to sit for a long time
(playing the piano or sitting infront of the computer etc.) ... well and
sometimes you just feel like having to crack that thing.
i dont want to make it look more dramatic than it is because it really depends
how stressed i am and always when i practice some self-control to reduce those
habits they start to disappear, so it is possible, but it is something i dont
really care about right now.
the last thing i would call an addiction is food. for me food played always a
very big role in my life and it still does. there are a lot of people who can
eat and eat and everything is fine. but my weight for example can go up with 4kg
in 1 or 2 weeks maximum only by eating a little bit more than usual. three years
ago i weighed about 100kg. eating was one of the essential things in my life
because you alway eat and eat etc. you can't just start eating less, that's
hard, it takes courage like it does when you try to get off a certain drug for
example.
well now i'm 75kg and there is another interesting thing. the need to be thinner
and i'm not talking about some hardcore eating disorder but the need to feel
empty inside. so you see how hard it is if you cannot just NOT care about what
you eat ... you start caring too much until it really IS a very influencing part
of your life. i would certainly call this an addiction.
... well i guess i'm talking way too much but don't mind me it's about 0:35 here
in germany and i'm way too tired to care about what and how much i'm writing.
I have a few questions for the general public. What are your addicitions and how do you deal? I have a few vices that I wish to rid myslef of, but I'm afraid they're becoming a little bit more than a vice. Any ideas? Also, whats your favorite thing to do for self-improvement. Mine is working out both my mind and body. For exapmle I'm reading The Long Goodby. It's an in-between novelette for GITS 1 and 2. The mater of cyberiztation and souls play heavily in it, and it makes me think.
I'm addicted to the computer and to caffeine. I deal with the computer addiction by getting all my necessary stuff (homework, chores, etc) done first before sitting in front of the machine. As for caffeine, I'm trying to wean myself off it by drinking tea, milk and water more. Both are tough to work around, though.
Favorite method of self-improvement...hmm...talking to my mom, prayer, and riding my bike.
Well like many people I am addicted to caffine didn't use to be until I started drinking Mountain Dew which is just carbonated caffine. Worrying, man have I wasted so much time doing that! Control I always have to be in control or know what is going to happen at every given moment or I just make myself sick with worry when things aren't going the way I think they should. I'm dealing with something like that right now and I'm just hoping to get through it with some semblence of sanity. I just wish I could control everyone, that would certainly put my mind at ease.
The
stuff that has helped me deal with my addictions is music, anime, and having
conversations with myself (of course those tend to keep me up at night lol!)
I would have to say that I am addicted to being alone. I don't much like being with other people. I like spending time with myself and my dog. I get nervous around other people. I don't know why that is, I just always have. And to avoid that nervous feeling I just stay away from them. There are some people that I feel comfortable around. People that I have known my whole life. But other then that most people just give off a fake attitude of friendship.
I try to deal with this addiction by making myself be around people even though I feel this way. I hope that someday I will stop feeling this way and stop feeling nervous around people. I don't have much hope, but I have to try.
I use to be addicted to alcohol but now I just dont touch it and I stay away from it,Im really addicted to shopping now not just for me but I'll buy things for everyone just to buy things still trying to get that addiction under control.
I know how you feel cheza2283 Im like that too only instead of a dog I have a cat.
Heh. I love cats.
Anyway, I think the internet is by far the worst addiction I have. It keeps me from studying, doing chores, going outside... It keeps me from doing many things.
And yet, I am doing nothing to curb that addiction. Except logging off earlier to do stuff.
hm addictions, good question ... if addictions are things you could never live without then i'd say music, coffee, women, rubik's cube, depression ...
there are a few things i would also count as an addiction but i do them rather unconscious ... like biting my fingernails and my fingers, like i would start tearing off little pieces of flesh and i just do it because i'm nervous, sometimes i don't even notice doing it. then i often crack my hands (every joint of it), my spine (and when i say spine i mean everything up to the back of my head), my toes, my knees, my hips ... i even crack my lower jaw and my elbows. and that's a thing i really can't get rid of because i'd do it instinctively.
and it's not only addicting but people tend to imitate you and start doing it, too. like on day i was sitting in class and looked at two of my friends while biting my fingernails ... and they were doing it, too and i was like WTF? then one of my friends also cracks his joints a lot so sometimes we would make cracking contests. the person who can crack the most joints wins.
kinda wired but at least i got an excuse. i can crack my lower jaw for example because when i was younger my lower jaw stood infront of the upper jaw. then i had to wear braces for YEARS until my lower jaw would move under my upper jaw. this whole procedure helped a lot and the only thing remaining from it is a sometimes accurung stiffness in my lower jaw every morning.
and i crack my hands because until the age of 14 i played the piano as a upcoming pianist (what then came doesn't really matter) but pianists tend to crack their fingers because if you are used to move your fingers intensively up to 4 hours a day you'll often feel a kind of stiffness after not having played for a long time etc.
the thing with the spine is also very simple, it also gets stiff, don't ask me why. i'm not a very sportif person and alway tended to sit for a long time (playing the piano or sitting infront of the computer etc.) ... well and sometimes you just feel like having to crack that thing.
i dont want to make it look more dramatic than it is because it really depends how stressed i am and always when i practice some self-control to reduce those habits they start to disappear, so it is possible, but it is something i dont really care about right now.
the last thing i would call an addiction is food. for me food played always a very big role in my life and it still does. there are a lot of people who can eat and eat and everything is fine. but my weight for example can go up with 4kg in 1 or 2 weeks maximum only by eating a little bit more than usual. three years ago i weighed about 100kg. eating was one of the essential things in my life because you alway eat and eat etc. you can't just start eating less, that's hard, it takes courage like it does when you try to get off a certain drug for example.
well now i'm 75kg and there is another interesting thing. the need to be thinner and i'm not talking about some hardcore eating disorder but the need to feel empty inside. so you see how hard it is if you cannot just NOT care about what you eat ... you start caring too much until it really IS a very influencing part of your life. i would certainly call this an addiction.
... well i guess i'm talking way too much but don't mind me it's about 0:35 here in germany and i'm way too tired to care about what and how much i'm writing.