It tells something about you and your mother that you remember what she said. It made me smile.
I once said something similar to my son. Also, I added that I actually can understand why the virtual world is more attractive to him than the real one. Sometimes I think that because we are still "cave-people" and not coping with the pace of modernity that we might miss something hard to name. I am deliberately exaggerating but I agree with Abigail on that.
From my point of view, addiction has its cause in wanting pain relief. Once the pain is gone the addiction might be gone with it. I think my society actually moves within a certain amount of pain & so addictions are there to give a way out of pain.
Do you know Gabor Maté? He is a Canadian doctor who talks a lot about addiction. It's sometimes also a "pain" listening to him :-)
Have a good night, day or morning.
P.S. Are you still located in Nigeria?
I couldn't agree more, but I don't think the addiction goes with the causative pain. The pain is like a matchstick that ignites the addiction and so even when the pain fizzles out, we could be left with a pointless addiction.
Lol, I do not know Maté but I will look him up ASAP
It's actually night here and yes, I'm still in Nigeria.
Take care ❤
I would like to answer with a question:
Have you ever had the experience of feeling fully content? Like staying in a situation and wishing for nothing more and nothing less?
I had this experience, but only on very very rare occasions. As I perceive a great suffering in the world, I would say that one fizzling out pain is replaced by another one setting in and being painless (either mentally or physically) is a state of being rare to find. That may sound pessimistic, I prefer to call it realistic :)
Addiction can either be pointless or a strategy to cope with pain. ... Actually, .... I would say every addiction points to something deeper. It is not the cause of pain in the first place, only a symptom to express and deal with it.
Does your mother still live?
You too, take care.