Hello, I’m an addict.
Seems pretty easy to say in reality. Drug addicts do it at NA, alcoholics do it at AA. I guess it’s fitting I do it on the internet, as I’m apparently addicted to electronics and the internet. The weirdos at a treatment center will tell you that addiction has something to do with having a behavior that has negative consequences and yet you still engage in them.
Thats pretty simple really. I’ve spent entire nights and days stuck to a computer, working or playing video games. I’ve allowed electronics/computers and work to cause stress in relationships. I’ve come to depend on them to feel normal. I’ve gotten in trouble with them. I’ve broken laws with them.
It’s come up in thinking several times over the past month. Usually when I open my laptop for the third or fourth time in couple hours. Why? Oh for nothing more than to check the news and my email. Given that the news don’t change that much and I really don’t get that much email, it’s kinda pointless. It’s terrible really. Falling asleep with the glow of a screen, or falling asleep on your keyboard.
Yeah, seems like a joke and all right? Wish it was, but it’s no surprise to me that they have actually started to notice that it is indeed something that people can become addicted to. There is however one thing that I will NEVER do. Online dating. Surprisingly though, both my Dad and Step-Dad have both done so and ended up married. Just so that we’re clear on this… crawling over broken shards of glass and hot coals while being violently violated so I could beg an ex for a chance would be more favorable than the concept of online dating.
Ehh I think my dog just farted.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Online dating never!!! But I have met the one of my dreams over the internet. We both had been commenting on another blog and one thing led to another. She came over from Germany 16 months and we are still together. I feel really lucky to have met someone that I could get along with. The best part she wasn’t looking for a sugar daddy. She actually makes much more than I do.
Now as for being addicted to the internet, I plead guilty. I don’t do much anymore but still find myself setting here looking at the monitor and really not even able to tell you have the stuff I look at. I just can’t stay away from the computer.