Dealing with addiction

Addiction is one kind of hell of a thing that if you get nib by it, it's hard to stop. It can be so worse that even when what you are addicted to is giving you losses you still can't resist the urge to continue.

Once you start getting addicted to something it gets into your brain and develops a tolerance to the addiction, so you must do it more and more.

Addiction is basically about "love and needs" for something you know can be bad for you and even if you are afraid of it, you can't stop doing it.

Addiction is not only about drugging or alcoholism, but it can also be something in our lives like the computer, smartphone, video game, TV, work, a certain food we eat, what we do for money, and the list goes on and on. Addiction is "to have a compulsion to obtain some effector results from the possession of a substance or engagement in an activity, regardless of its harmful effects".

An addict to anything or everything will use it to the fullest to achieve his/her goal.

There is a reality to addiction. We are all addicted to one thing or the other, but the ability to recognize your limitations and make a turnaround is what differentiates you from being tagged as an addict.

I find it hard to deal with an addiction that I have found myself plugged into recently. My exploration of the Dogechain has turned into an addiction that got me hooked on the NFT market hype on the chain so much that even now that the hype has died a bit due to the frequency of rug pulls I still can't stop myself from checking in on the community and hopping from one telegram group to another in search of a new NFT project.

The worse part of this addiction is that I spent my day doing nothing meaningful than checking on telegram groups and the Metamask wallet browser to check on the Oasis NFT marketplace if any of my NFT listed had been sold. I became addicted to this thing that I could list, delist and relist my NFTs several times a day in my desperation to have them sold.

You know how the Metamask dapp browser can consume data. I got a 4GB data package burned out in just 24hrs for nothing. The same package usually lasts for about a week and 3 days for me. Between Saturday last week and today, I have used a total of 8GB data package just on the Oasis wallet app and through my browsing on these message groups that I am hooked to.

I asked myself earlier today, "Don't you wish you could just block this addictive phenomenon that you have got yourself into and try to find a way out of this hole that has got you stuck?"

I don't know where this addiction may lead me, I don't know if I should just call it quits or continue spending every single waking moment of my day waiting for this one thing that makes my day and my sleep miserable.

There's no hype in the Dogechain NFT market anymore, I guess it's time to get myself out of the hook. I hope to come out of it with my sanity intact and not with half a mind.

I have decided to list most of the NFTs I still have in my wallet for sale at cheap prices so I can completely take my mind away from them and try to find my focus again. It has gotten into my head so much that I hardly an ample time to nurture fresh inspiration for writing, and it's the reason why I have been publishing articles late at night which is not my usual mode of operation.

I hope to find my balance again and focus on the things that give me peace of mind and freedom from this addiction. It's not going to be easy but I will do my best to get out of this addiction before I get shipwrecked.

Maybe you could take this article as a small example of how it happens with addiction. Do you see it happening with you as well? Do you find yourself checking on this or that multiple times a day? Then don't get enslaved to it. Let it go. It's time for you to free yourself as I have just decided to do.