Passion or Addiction, which one will lead to happiness in life. Why?

We have already known that everyone around us shall have at least one ability in their life. Some of them use that ability to help poor people, but some do not do it. They just used their time doing lots of unnecessary things, somebody even spend their time playing games in their room. They never use their time to read books, do sports, or study something good for themselves. They did not know that they are wasting their time every moment. However, they do not want to change that behavior even if they know that habit is not good and it can affect their life. Especially, they cannot control themselves, but most of them said that they did it because they love it. For instance, somebody would like to drink coffee because they love it. They even spend their time trying to figure out more types of coffee, and of course, they will enjoy all of them as a present. I do not know why those people want to spend their time doing things that are not helping them to improve their personalities. I have a friend who loves to play games. He spends three hours a day playing games. When I asked him why he love it so much, he said that “I have a passion for playing games, and passion is good for improving ourselves”. He even has no definition between passion and addiction. But I assumed that some of us are having the same situation as my friend, so I decide to analyze the passion and the true meaning inside it. Firstly, we will talk a little bit about our society. Do you realize that our society is divided into two types – the minority and the majority. Now, I would like to ask you a simple question. Which type of group do you think can control the other? Majority or minority. If you chose the second one, I would like to congratulate that opinion. But why the minority can control the majority? For instance, when you join a group, you will see that there are lots of members, but there is only one leader, and the leader can make his members do everything he wants because he has permission. Backing to our real life, do you notice that the CEOs who create the social media like Facebook, Apple, … only contain some people, and the rest are their staff. But the CEOs can control their users by changing their accounts, …whatever. And they have controlled us since we used their products. Do you know that the creator of Google is using your data to develop their technology to a better level? For example, when you listen to some random kinds of music on YouTube, it will automatically give you lots of recommendations relating to that subject. Those recommendations are based on the videos that you watched. You will be controlled every moment unless you do not use their products. That’s why the minority can control the majority in our lives. Source: https: //www. cnet. com/tech/services-and-software/google-collects-a-frightening-amount-of-data-about-you-you-can-find-and-delete-it-now/ There are so many cases that we often spend our time doing non-essential things, but we think that it will make us feel relaxed. There are few people use the entire day watching entertainment videos, they even forget to do their daily works. According to them, they believe that those actions are passion, and they do everything to follow the passion. We always want to find more time to sacrifice the addiction inside ourselves because we would feel uncomfortable if we lost it. However, everything we do is based on our thinking. The brain is stronger and smarter than every supercomputer in this world. We can realize good and bad things that are happening in daily life. Whenever we think, behave, and talk about something, the brain will use that information to analyze it. It will select the most effective messages to use. If we wish to eliminate the trash information, we must meditate every day to calm down our minds. The bad things are easy to add, but it is hard to delete. Adding more useful knowledge by doing good things such as study, do homework, … is the suitable choice to improve our thinking. Let me compare for you between passion and addiction. Firstly, you cannot control your addiction to something, but you can control your passion in your actions. The successful person is the one who can control their actions, for instance. They know the limit and they can manage their time. We often addicted to something, but we thought that it was the passion. Even if we know that it is bad, we do not want to stop it. Nevertheless, if we put all of our efforts to change ourselves now, we could achieve success. Have you ever seen the addicted people around you? What do you think about them when you see that their behaviors are not controlled? It looks so terrible, does not it? For instance, when we are addicted to games but our mind does not realize it, we will not be able to change it. You must recognize the mistakes, then you should correct them step-by-step to get the best result. For example, one year ago, I used to spend so much time using my computer to play games. My parents gave me lots of useful tips to stop but I did not listen to them. At that time, I thought that playing games were a passion because we had to investigate the time and efforts to do it. When I got older, I changed my thinking. I assume that those bad habits are addictions, so I shall stop playing computer games to avoid addicted to them one more time. Source: https: //teens. drugabuse. gov/sites/default/files/blog/graphic_addiction_word_cloud_optimized. jpg In the picture above, you can see that addiction takes up too much space in our brain. If you saw it clearer, you would see that there are so many conditions that make our brain weaker. Those elements come from your daily actions, and it appears whenever you think, talk, or act. But some additional conditions also affect your brain. One of them is food – the most necessary thing to maintain our lives. A long time ago, when people had not found ways to preserve everything they eat, the food is not containing so much poison inside it. So those people were stronger than us. Now, we use the chemicals and develop them to keep our food in the best condition and make it more delicious by adding preservatives and spices into it. When you go to a fast-food restaurant, you can see that their products contain lots of oil, preservative, and spices. That food will destroy your brain soon, be careful about what you eat. Source: https: //imagesvc. meredithcorp. io/v3/mm/image? url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic. onecms. io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F12%2F2017%2F05%2Fgettyimages-91278912-2000. jpg The sandwich in that picture, for instance, is containing the biohazard – also called a biological substance that would threaten our lives if we accidentally ate it. We must be careful in what we eat, try to say “No” to junk food to reduce diseases and protect our brain. We are maintaining our lives by breathing continuously. We can say that we are doing that action unconsciously. But we will not talk about that problem. The main thing is that the air you use every moment can affect your brain too. In the industrial society, the factories emit a lot of toxic gas into the environment. That is why the air we use every day is polluted. Some countries try to introduce policies to limit the emissions of factories, but it does not help us too much. If we planted more trees and protect the environment, we could reduce that issue. But it will not happen, it is too late now. Our brain would become weaker if we did not change our behaviors. Source: http: //www. suzannegazdamd. com/uploads/3/8/3/4/38341157/blog-air-pollution-health-effec2_orig. jpg However, we are the owner of our actions at every moment. You would think about the things that you decided to do before you do it. That means your thinking also affects your behavior. For instance, when you love to hang out with your friends on weekend, but your parents do not allow you to do it, how do you feel? You will try to do everything to get it. It is called addiction. Like it, when you are addicted to something, your brain will find any way to reach it, even if that action can affect your future. We will find something same as our favorite to do. If you are a gamer, and one day, in a power-failure, you cannot play anything, and what will you do? I guess that you will use your phone to play offline games instead, because it is your habit and you cannot stop immediately. It was not the addiction but what? Are you thinking that it is passion? No ways! Totally, we would lose control if we were addicted to something. If you can control your habits and actions, that means you are passionate about it. But you cannot even control yourself in this case! I know that addiction is hard to stop, but we should reduce it day-by-day. For instance, you often spent about two hours a day playing games. Now, you should reduce it by using less time playing it. This week, you should decrease it to one hour and thirty minutes. The next week, you continue to decrease it by thirty minutes. And after one month, you can stop playing the games. When we use the brain on processing the games, like “which ways should I choose to win this”, or “How can I use this character”, . . . . And your brain must remember those trash things when you play the games. That information is also called “Trash” or “Rubbish” thing. If we add so many unnecessary things to our brain, we won’t have any place left to add new knowledge. It can damage your brain and make it weaker. However, as I have said before, we should meditate every day to remove those rubbish in our brains. We will move to the internet in general. The internet has two faces. Firstly, it can give us anything we want, from the information to the food. We can book the food we want by clicking on the “Buy” button, entering your address, and it will deliver it to your place. On the other side, the internet can waste our time if we do not know how to control it. We always try to access to the internet every day because we want it. Somebody even spends the entire day watching something on the internet. And we are interested in the recommendations on the web. If you use the internet in the wrong ways, you will become the consumer of their products. I have said that the inventors never use their products, they just make and sell them to get the money. And we are the puppets in their hands. They can change us into everything they want! Everything in this world can be recovered, except time. Time always passes, no matter you want it or not. That is why Heraclitus said that “No man steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man”. This quote means the time always changes, and the world is improving in its ways. If you cannot catch it, you are falling behind. Technology, method, education, trend, … always change and improve on their ways. If you just spent your time on unnecessary things, you will become a useless person. No one cares about it, but you must develop yourself to become better and better. Like me, five months ago, I cannot do or study anything to improve my knowledge. Copying from the internet, or putting it in a translate app is everything I can do to write an assignment. At that time, I often played games when I was studying in some online classes. I did not think that I was addicted to it, and my parents try to stop me from doing unnecessary things. But I ignored them and continued to play. Now, I consider that I had used my time on trash things, and I feel quite regret about it. But the past is the past, and I cannot change it anymore. I would like to give you some advice. Enjoy every moment you live in this world, try to do good things for others, and do not waste your time on trash habits. I do not want to re-make this mistake anymore because life is too short. We do not have many times to do those things. You have to say “No” to them to avoid wasting the time. Be careful and selective in what you want to do and whom you want to become in the future. Source: https: //twitter. com/StevenHandel/status/664146886362841088 Also, we cannot analyze and compare anything when our brain is tired. If you made your brain work too much, you could not obtain anything from it. That is why we must keep our brains in balance. When a computer works too much, its speed will become slower and sometimes it will shut down automatically, for instance. The computers are in the same manner as our brains too. Everything has a limit, and if you reached out the limit, your mind will overload and you cannot do anything. If you had to work on the computer, you should take a 15-minutes break after one hour doing it. Keeping our health in the best status is one of the best choices to not affect our brains. Does passion as same as addiction? To answer this action, we will analyze passion and its benefit. Before we analyze and take a deep look at it, we will talk about the definition. For instance, inventors love to invent new things, but they can manage their time to do it, and it is called passion. There are so many ways to increase your passion, but I will show you some of them. The purpose is the first thing that I want to talk about. You should not do anything without purpose. Choosing the final goal and putting all efforts into it is the best way to achieve success. Source: https: //ngolongnd. net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ngolongnd_purpose-di-voi-gioi-tu-gi. jpg Secondly, we will talk about our emotions. In my opinion, I assume that we will be nervous before we do something important. Me too. When I did an exam at school, I often felt nervous and afraid of my knowledge. I was scared that I would get a low grade, and that emotion affected my result. Do not fear to face anything, because it will sink into the flow of history. Believe in yourselves, belief in your abilities. Source: https: //images-na. ssl-images-amazon. com/images/I/41LCj+sWF4L. _SX331_BO1, 204, 203, 200_. jpg The third one I want to discuss with you is about gratitude. Have you ever gratitude to anything around you? Or you just disregard them and continue doing your works? Every day when you wake up is a new experience. Today is more different than yesterday. Because we can continue doing things that yesterday we had not done it. When you pay the attention to some objects around you, you will see that it looks more different than yesterday. It will get older and older, but it will not stop supporting your lives to become more convenient. Be grateful for what you have, because it will be disappeared on an unexpected random day. The final thing I want to share with you is learning new lessons by making mistakes. Sometimes, most of us will think that making mistakes is bad because it can affect our future. If you spent more time to took a deep look at it, you should feel that we also learn new lessons from our mistakes. Successful people used to make mistakes in the past, but they know how to correct and avoid them at the next time. Source: https: //quotefancy. com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/77074-Robert-T-Kiyosaki-Quote-Making-mistakes-is-natural-Making-mistakes. jpg To summarize, we need to remember three things to change our behaviors. Before we do it, I will tell you the reason why I think that passion will make our lives to become happier. Firstly, passion can give us the courage to continue doing that works. We love to do it so we will put all our efforts to complete it. We can learn how to control our actions more correctly if we have a real passion for it. Thirdly, passion will lead you to the goal quicker, but the rest is up to you. If you want to be successful, you must have a suitable timeline to do the things you want. However, I have to say that addiction is not bad if we use our addiction for passion. Source: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=SBDEfB3ZeSE&t=45s To sum up, there are three things you should learn by heart. The first thing you must remember is that no one will care and wait for your improvement. No one can help you except yourself. Be careful in what you do to get the best result. Second, you must be alert about your passion and addiction. Sometimes you cannot compare passion and addiction because they look the same. Maybe you will think that that work is your passion, but it is not true if you cannot control it. The final one, you need to be selective in what you do, think, and act because your brain will remember it. You should use your time on the good things so you will not waste it. References: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=SBDEfB3ZeSE&t=45s, by Research Technology official. https: //www. mindtools. com/pages/article/learn-from-mistakes. htm, by the mind tools content team. https: //www. indeed. com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-find-your-passion https: //www. indeed. com/career-advice/career-development/examples-of-passions