Toronto, Ontario
Addictions
Addiction is a hard thing to deal with. An addict is someone who’s terribly transformed over an obsession. It indicates lack of control, lack of discipline, lack of self-worth. Whether the addiction is drinking, drugs, sex, pornography or any other spin on being possessed, its consequences are so devastating. It leads to break-up of family, loss of job, loss of hygiene and of good balanced health and so on.
Somehow or other we might learn something from addicts. Although their attention is on a weakness and not on strength, nevertheless there is some attention or focus. If it could only be redirected.
I walked with a dear friend whom I’ve known since living in Toronto 40 years ago. He is a sworn alcoholic but just as he has been loyal to the bottle, he’s never forgotten God and so he’s taken the bold step towards rehabilitation. He’s getting help, lots of it, from experts in the field of recovery.
It was reassuring that he was taking the right steps, not only to do with our walking, but to curing himself. My friend chants mantras, has reverence towards Krishna and appears determined.
I’m not an AA guru but I felt I could offer the recommendation for him to walk more, to keep the mechanism (the body) working, to take in the good air and to dream of an improved situation. Yes, I believe that walking does allow the person do have greater stimulation of thought, ideas and dreams and hope.
May the Source be with you!
7 KM
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