Addiction is not necessary to be bad

Addiction is a word that is mostly used for negative purposes. When we hear the word, the first thing that comes to our mind is drug addiction. There are many valid reasons to think addiction is a negative word. In recent times, game addiction was also a common thing.

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Addiction refers to the situation when a human cannot resist doing something or cannot control repeated actions to do a task. As an example, we can consider drug addiction. There are many reasons for why a person can start taking drugs. The start is intentional, but after a certain time, taking drugs becomes a habit. When it becomes a habit, it becomes difficult to leave because changing a habit is not so easy. Let’s talk about game addiction. In the case of game addiction, it’s like when someone starts playing a game, he feels good, but after a certain time, he gets lost in the game so much that he doesn’t care about time, and he also can’t resist playing the game even if he knows it’s not good for his health. Again, because of the game, he loses his most precious time, and it’s also enough to destroy a good career. So, from this kind of situation, judging addiction is natural. Does it mean addiction is bad all the time? I don’t think so.

Addiction can be good too. I have seen many people who are very much interested in reading books, and I am also one of them. At the beginning, I started reading books just to gain knowledge. I used to think that the more books I read, the more knowledge I could gather. It was just a matter of time before I started to enjoy reading books, and for some time, I became obsessed with reading books. I can remember that there was a time when I started to read a book, and I felt restless until I finished reading the book. I have a record of reading a 700-page book within 2 days, and I read it almost all day. I was a book addict, and because of it, I have read many books in a short time. It helped me learn many things from books, and at the same time, it helped me increase my patience limit, which is good for my real life. It’s just an example of addiction that is good.

There are a few more examples of good addiction, but most of the time we can see the negative consequences of addiction, and because of that, the word addiction is set in our minds as a negative word even if addiction can be a good thing.