Soft Addictions and Its Effect on Our Lives
Soft Addictions and Life
Tony Rashad Walker, Jr.
DeVry University
Soft Addictions and Life
McLaughlin (2014) article, in the book In Concert: Reading and Writing (McWhorter, 2013), “Are You Hooked” quotes “Soft addictions are an escape from uncomfortable feelings,” from Judith Wrights (2006) book The Soft Addictions Solution. Once you begin to think about time, money, energy spent unnecessarily such as “texting, tweeting, or checking your Facebook page”, (Wright, 2013) you have begun to analyze a soft addiction. Therefore, this essay will address “do soft addictions get in the way of leading a more fulfilling life.”
Seemingly, harmless habits are soft addictions. Their manifestations come via “over-shopping, overeating, watching too much television, endlessly surfing the internet, procrastinating, etc.” (Wright, 2006) and can cause wretchedness to our lives. This is because soft addictions damage our overall morale via time and money, embarrassment, taciturn and the lack of energy.
We all have soft addictions but are not often familiar with this type of addiction. For instance, when individuals or couples are addicted to watching television late at night, they are in a belief system of entertainment. He or she will watch television until he or she falls asleep. Once he or she is exposed to the term soft addictions, he or she often will investigate to acquire knowledge and to decipher whether or not his or her enthusiastic passion for late night TV is a soft addiction. Frequently, his or her finding is that he or she is watching TV to “escape from uncomfortable feelings” (McWhorter, 2013) such as incompatibility that is a defining factor to what has cause this soft addiction. Decisively, a forthcoming resolution is derived. All involved in the soft addiction well eagerly decide on the step or steps he or she need to take for obliteration of the soft addiction.
In effect, soft addictions often manifest through overexerting oneself
Tony Rashad Walker, Jr.
DeVry University
Soft Addictions and Life
McLaughlin (2014) article, in the book In Concert: Reading and Writing (McWhorter, 2013), “Are You Hooked” quotes “Soft addictions are an escape from uncomfortable feelings,” from Judith Wrights (2006) book The Soft Addictions Solution. Once you begin to think about time, money, energy spent unnecessarily such as “texting, tweeting, or checking your Facebook page”, (Wright, 2013) you have begun to analyze a soft addiction. Therefore, this essay will address “do soft addictions get in the way of leading a more fulfilling life.”
Seemingly, harmless habits are soft addictions. Their manifestations come via “over-shopping, overeating, watching too much television, endlessly surfing the internet, procrastinating, etc.” (Wright, 2006) and can cause wretchedness to our lives. This is because soft addictions damage our overall morale via time and money, embarrassment, taciturn and the lack of energy.
We all have soft addictions but are not often familiar with this type of addiction. For instance, when individuals or couples are addicted to watching television late at night, they are in a belief system of entertainment. He or she will watch television until he or she falls asleep. Once he or she is exposed to the term soft addictions, he or she often will investigate to acquire knowledge and to decipher whether or not his or her enthusiastic passion for late night TV is a soft addiction. Frequently, his or her finding is that he or she is watching TV to “escape from uncomfortable feelings” (McWhorter, 2013) such as incompatibility that is a defining factor to what has cause this soft addiction. Decisively, a forthcoming resolution is derived. All involved in the soft addiction well eagerly decide on the step or steps he or she need to take for obliteration of the soft addiction.
In effect, soft addictions often manifest through overexerting oneself