Definition of addiction

I think addiction must be understand before we can rid of it. As always said, we must get rid of the root cause and not the symptom. And so we should understand the root cause of addiction. I was suddenly enlightened about the cause of addiction through some reading lately. It just make sense to me that some addiction is really caused by the need to have instant gratification. This instant gratification is normally wasting time such as surfing net, chatting, emailing, or drinking. So much so that a lot of our time is wasted doing nothing instead of doing something to improve our live i.e. reading books, exercising, etc.

With the definition of addiction stated as above, we can now try to find out why we want instant gratification during that time. Is it because doing important thing is very painful to us? Or because we're in some sadness? If its painful to do important stuff, we must find out why. Or at least we do it bit by bit and not as painful as to do it fully. And if we're sad, we have to know why we're sad. Are we too sensitive and causing us sadness unecessarily? Anyway, don't sweat over small stuff. There's more important things out there that needs our attention.

Anyway, take care.