Addicted till my last breath.

I guess you could say that being addicted to life make you less prone to worry.

I quit smoking 7 days ago after 33 years of doing it. I just got tired of it and didn’t want to do it anymore. It became NOT important and I decided that the government had taxed my addiction enough. They voted to raise taxes another 73 cents a pack. I am tired of paying tax for all of my addictions. Alcohol is next on the quit list. I am tired of being taxed on that. The great thing about being addicted to life is the government can’t tax a state of mind.

So I am addicted to life until my last breath which could have been a few days ago. For you see, I hadn’t been feeling to well because I had some pressure in my back and my coccyx hurts which I attributed to a fall last September. I went to get a replacement window 2 days ago for the downstairs kitchen and stopped at the grocery store to get a little food. While there I checked my blood pressure. Man that machine squeezed really hard almost to the point I was going to hit the emergency stop. 230/130 was the reading. Well, I bummed because this meant I needed to go to the doctor. I don’t care for doctors much so I walked into the clinic yesterday knowing I should have went to the ER (emergency room) but somehow I thought the clinic would be able to take care of me. Yeah, right the triage nurse took my BP and said you need to go to the ER. Ha ,I knew that already I was trying to save myself the big bucks. Well, needless to say after a dose of norvasc, 6 vials of blood, a chest x-ray, and a EKG I was released. The norvasc had lowered my BP the chest x ray was OK the EKG was OK but the blood was not OK. It showed signs of kidney damage and the doctors do not know if it is permanent or not. The point is I could have become very upset at this news but hey it’s life. Life is not easy or fair so you have to take the hand you are dealt with and run with it. The important thing to remember is every living thing dies. I will die someday, but that is something I will not worry about now or ever. BECAUSE there is nothing I can do about it. We all need to come to grips with our own mortality! So even if I had seen a doctor once a year I could have had high blood pressure for a year before catching it. Luckily my mother had a BP cuff because she was a nurse. So I believe I checked it about 6 months ago before she died.

Through all of this how can I be sad or upset…
I am addicted to life!

Cheers,
Jay

Being addicted to life is a powerful state of mind!

Being addicted to life is a powerful state of mind! Enjoy life, that is why you are here. Playing the hand you were dealt. Think of the person you admire the most. Is he/she, wealthy, successful, HAPPY? What makes them different? Are they?

They too must face the reality of their mortality for they will die, if they are not dead already. So that evened the playing field. You may be motivated to make a million or motivated to grow a stand of trees. Who’s to say where happiness lies. Hopefully it lies within!

 

I’m Addicted
To Life

What are some of your addictions?

What kind of addictions do you have? Maybe an addiction to cars, boats, racing? Maybe an addiction to tractors or old hand tools. Maybe TV.

There are all types of addictions and they are as diversified as there are people in the world. I guess that is why people with the same addictions form clubs.

The wonderful thing about being addicted to life is the cost!

It costs nothing to be addicted to life, there is no fee.

All it takes is to be committed just like any other addiction.

Your commitment to being addicted to life is beneficial to you as it puts many things in perspective during your life. You are less bothered by bad drivers and just laugh at their stupidity instead of getting mad. When you spill something you also laugh as it really will not bother you. You see, spilling something or making a huge mess happens to EVERYONE, not just you.

It is all about perspective.

I’m addicted
To Life

Wonderful Addictions.

What is it like to be addicted to life? Try and think about what that statement says. I am addicted to life. I love life. Life is good.

Overall life is good. Sure you come across times where life is getting you down or threw you a curve ball but don’t lose sight of your happiness. Yes, loving life is a big part of achieving your happiness. Zest for life is hard to beat when speaking of happiness. Again not every moment is going to be good but when your overall outlook on life is good even the not so good things turn out to be not so bad. Why?

Because I’m addicted
To Life

One of many

I am thinking of how many addictions I have.

Wow, way too many to count. I love my coffee in the morning. I love a good cigarette, but I have cut my smoking way down as not to feed this 33 year addiction too much. I love a good cigar, although I don’t smoke them often. I adore Diet Pepsi and could drink gallons a day! I love a stiff drink. I am addicted to music. I have an addiction for RC planes, old cars, electronics, oil painting, stamps, coins, prospecting, cooking. You could say I am addicted to junk as my house certainly reveals all these addictions. What a mess!

But alas life changes and I am going to have to quell some of these addictions. My mother recently died and I am in the process of digging out so we can put our house on the market. 

The house is so big fixing it up seems to be a never ending story. There is no reason to keep such a massive house anymore 7 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 kitchens at least not just to contain my addictions.

I probably got some of my mothers genes. The pack rat.

But alas Mom is gone now and it is time to move. I am still in the process of removing her addictions and I have given a lot of her addictions to her friends. I consider myself to be lucky to have had such a great mom and if not for her kids she would have had a hard time once she retired.

She died tragically and I have started a foundation in her name so she can live forever.

Someone once said, “Change is good”.

Through all of this change, life is good.

My greatest addiction of all.

LIFE

Addictions overcome me.

Have I let my addictions overcome me? For you see.

Last night I cooked spaghetti. Something so easy, and it was delicious. Everyone enjoyed it. I told you earlier that even baking a cake was art. Well, my spaghetti was art and the people eating it experienced an aesthetic experience.

Why did I cook the spaghetti, was it my turn at the stove tonight? NO…
I did it because I could. I love what I can do and enjoy it. Seeing the enjoyment in ones face after they ate your masterpiece is a lot like seeing their face after they viewed one of  your paintings or heard your music. I ask you what is the difference since you connected with that person on a new dimension or level.

It’s my art and I enjoy it.

It's my art

 

It’s my  life and I have made the conscience decision to enjoy it. I ask you… what better way to enjoy life?

I love what I do.

I’m Addicted
to life.

I am addicted

Coming to grips with ones mortality is not an easy task. Everyone has got to understand the playing field is level. All through life the playing field is level. You say… NO WAY!

I say YEA

Everyone is dealt the exact same hand. Your life is exactly that, a Life. Everyone will eventually die and in the scope of things it does not matter that you painted a masterpiece or wrote that killer song because you too will know your own mortality.
Why than create works of art, music or anything  if it does not matter?

I only said you were dealt the same hands and you will live and you will die. The ability to enjoy life is not some hidden prize the ability to enjoy life is also dealt in your fateful hand. Creating something that you enjoy something that is beautiful is the essence of enjoyment. If you want to write a book… WRITE IT. Don’t talk about it, life is to short. If you want to learn music than learn it. Art, DO IT.

I call it a mania. A beautiful mania.

Remember,  no matter what you decide to do for your life’s enjoyment it is truly all yours. It’s your art. This fridge magnet says it all!

Even something as simple as baking a cake is art.

But why do anything if it is meaningless?

Well, once you created art it exists. It exists as a part of your life. It shows the masses your feelings at the time your art was created. That is the wonderful thing about creativity.

That is the wonderful thing about life.

I’m addicted
to life.
I live it.

I’m addicted

I’m addicted. Yes, I will admit it.

I actually live  the addiction instead of it living off of me.
Ha, who am I to kid as the addiction rumbles in my head jumbling sentences and trying to escape.
Escape in what form, a piece of art, a new song, a recipe, a poem, some new electronics junk. Why is it junk? I created it.
It is actually part of my never ending mania as well as part of my addiction.

Everyone should be addicted!
I’m Addicted.
To Life