Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. If we are to tell ourselves the truth, we all have one or two things that we indulge in that deep within us we know are wrong, but somehow we cannot find a way to stop them. We know somehow if we continue on that track we will have to pay the consequences, and it will be bad, but we still go ahead and do them anyway. Some might say it is an addiction, but I don't think it is because we can control when we drink or eat those things; we can cut down on them, but stopping them completely is the problem, as we don't know how to do that.
While addiction means whatever it is that you are addicted to takes control of you, it decides when you take it and how you take it, but it is not so for those things we cannot stop; we still have full control but just cannot stop them completely. Our case is completely different from addiction because we still have control. A friend of mine once said even if he becomes a reverend father tomorrow, he will still be drinking beer whether it is supported that he does it or not; he is not leaving beer for anybody or for any reason.
We all know the implications that come with too much intake of alcohol, but we have people like him too who still take it anyway, and no matter how much they preach against it and talk about the implications, they are not stopping anytime soon and don't think the time will ever come where they stop taking those things they take, knowing fully well at some point it might come back to haunt them. Even those who smoke tobacco who are not addicts—sometimes I wonder if they are blind because it says on the cartoon smokers are liable to die young, and they still go ahead and pay for it; even the image of the damaged lungs on the cartoon or packet does not scare them.
For me, one thing I am guilty of and sometimes stay away from just to avoid it coming back to haunt me is sugar. I consume so much sugar; I know it, and I don't need anyone else to tell me, but I cannot stop it completely. Sometimes I try to go weeks without taking beverages like tea or carbonated drinks just to cut down on sugar intake, but it is funny how the day I finally decide to take them again, I take enough to cover for the weeks I was trying to abstain. I feel guilty when making tea sometimes because of the amount of sugar and other ingredients I add to it, but I just cannot help it; if it is not sugary enough, I cannot take it.
Sugar is bad for the health. I have seen what too much intake of it does, and it scares me, but I still cannot just stop completely; I always find my way back to it, and when I take it, it covers for the few days I was away.