Addictions

Today, I came to the conclusion that everyone has an addiction to something. That addiction could be to a person, or place or thing. It may be big like being an alcoholic or sex addict or porn addict or addicted to drugs, or those "on again, off again" relationships people put themselves into. Of course there are also the "silly" addictions, like to certain foods, or drinks, or things like that. My addiction, I have come to realize is to music. My mother pointed this out to me today, and I never really thought of me listening to music a lot as an addiction, but I guess if I had to say what I was addicted to, I would have to say music. I listen to it in the car, at work sometimes, whenever I work-out, clean, work on the computer, as I am falling asleep. I even watch music videos when I am bored. I play on the piano a lot, and whenever it's quiet I get annoyed and end up turning on the radio. I guess now that I know for sure I'm addicted to music, I need to work on being ok with silence. Don't get me wrong, I do like it, but I can't seem to take it for long. My mom said to me, "Teresa, have you ever thought that maybe the reason why you can get so confused about what God wants of you is because He can't talk over all the music you have playing constantly around you?" So for the first step of my "getting over music" addiction I have decided to turn off the music when I go to bed. I figure, for me, one step at a time will help.

The prayer above, I have always liked, and since I was talking about addictions in this blog posting, I figure why not put up something with the Serenity Prayer.