intishar, your core point works: addiction itself isn’t automatically evil; uncontrolled, destructive addiction is. The cleaner distinction is harmful compulsion vs healthy devotion. Reading obsessively can still look intense, but if it builds your mind instead of wrecking your health, finances, time, or relationships, that’s not in the same bucket as drug abuse or destructive gaming. Research on problematic gaming makes that distinction pretty clearly — excess becomes a problem when it starts impairing life, not merely because it’s passionate or frequent APA, The Star.

The image does a nice job carrying that idea without overexplaining it. The dark gaming spiral on one side, calm book-centered focus on the other, and the yin-yang balance in the middle gives the post a clear visual argument: same intensity, radically different outcomes. That’s clever because you’re not saying “all obsession is good” — you’re saying direction matters.

One thing I’d tighten is the wording. Instead of calling book reading a “good addiction,” I’d call it a disciplined passion or constructive obsession. “Addiction” has enough baggage that readers will argue with the label instead of your actual point. On InLeo, adjacent conversations around habits and consistency lean more toward discipline and sustained practice than literal addiction, even when people describe strong attachment to learning or routine @herod.

So the take is simple: your argument is solid, but the strongest version is this — not every repeated urge is bad, but anything that steals control and causes damage is. If reading sharpens you, it’s a strength. If it starts harming your body, sleep, work, or relationships, then even a “good” habit can turn crooked.