Craving and determinants.

Following the ongoing trend right now where humans have gone so low as to engage in sexual activities with animals, one can rightfully ask this question; what truly are the determinants of human craving? Scrolling through social media these days leaves the mind with a nauseous feeling, this is one of the greatest fears of purists all around the world. A mind is kept safe if the owner can be able to avoid negativity of all kinds and at every time. This becomes the cross we all must bear in other to survive each passing day even as we struggle to keep our shoulders high. How then can a man say that he is living a fulfilling life when in all his days, he must intentionally keep watch over the things that get into his mind.

Craving

A man wakes up with a serious need for a better life even when he knows that he has acquired a certain degree of success. A woman looks at herself and begins to feel incomplete because she has allowed social media pressure to eat deep into her mind. Craving was one of the natural gifts of life until we began to allow peer pressure, people's opinions, social media and evil desires to become our determinants. Looking at the things we crave most times makes us wonder if we are truly living or merely marking time ie waiting for death. The various ways and manners in which we allow unnecessary things to become a stronghold in our life just because we crave them have given room for evil to breed right under our noses.

Just last week, it began to spread all over the internet that girls are beginning to go as low as having sexual activities with dogs for $1000 or more. As if that was not enough, we began to hear how children or should I say siblings engage in sexual activities right under the roof of their house. This leaves one to wonder where and what has become the bases of our cravings in life. How can one say that money is the reason for engaging in sexual activity with a dog? Does it mean that anyone can wake up any day and start hunting humans because he has craving for human meat? If this is so, I believe no one is safe not even the President of America yes, you heard me right.

Does it sound like a threat? Well, you can decide to see it as a threat or not but don't keep a blind eye to the negative changes that are constantly taking place in our world today. One of the biggest questions we must always ask ourselves at this point is; must every craving be satisfied? If we do not get the answer to this question then, we are as good as doomed. Even when you crave a certain food, you do not kill yourself when you are not able to have it. Why then do we satisfy all these cravings that drive us closer to our grave?

Choice

Say the word loud enough so that you won't forget it at any time. When we talk about cravings, it is rooted in choice and how we control them at any given time. A man walks into a restaurant to have roasted chicken salad but when he is told it has finished, he is left with the choice of either going to another place or making a different order. Now, whatever he does at that time determines his ability to control his cravings. Yes, it is not a crime for one to crave one thing or the other, but what makes it a crime is allowing your cravings to control and determine your actions at every time.

Let's imagine that the man who wanted to eat roasted chicken salad drove just 2o minutes to get to the restaurant where he was told it has finished. Will it be wise for the man to drive over 2 hours to another restaurant where he can get the chicken salad? This is where control and choice come in. He may decide to take the risk of driving over 2 hours for his craving or may choose to go for another thing, knowing that there is a possibility of not getting the kind of roasted chicken salad he wants from another restaurant. This is what is happening in our world today. Because you crave success and riches, you allow yourself to drive hours through a treacherous route. Knowing fully well that the risk you are taking weighs higher than the reward you will get.

Craving and choice have become the secret behind a lot of failures in life. This is because most of us decided to take the risk even when we understood that the risk was never worth it. Craving is not a crime but we have made it a crime by allowing our minds to crave things that are beyond our reach. You can't be a poor man and you are craving a private jet or a Lamborghini. This is what has led a lot of people into crime. No matter what or who you are, you must understand that cutting your coat according to your cloth is the key to survival in life. We have allowed our minds to go under unnecessary pressure because we became too ambitious, which led us into nailing morality on the cross and making immorality our best friend.

Know your ability if you want to live your life free from deadly cravings, be wise...