Good definition of addiction: It starts when you drink the bottle, and ends with the bottle drinking you.
Consumer -> consumed
Related to Margaret Silf’s Sources/Inner Compass reading: A disordered attachment is like a hook. It makes you lose your freedom.
Summary of Cards/The First Principle and Foundation: God desires that we experience the best life we can live. The people and things in our lives are meant to aid towards that best possible life.
Warning: But it’s possible to get attached to or hooked on people and things.
When your whole life revolves around some thing, person, idea, or experience…even if it’s supposedly good.
==Attachment starts with good things==…things that feel good.
So while some attachments can be healthy, well-ordered commitments, others can become unhealthy, destructive obsessions.
These are disordered attachments: an unhealthy dependence on any thing, person, idea, or experience that keeps us from fulfilling the will of God which is to live the best life we can.
Disordered attachments shrink our world into the confines of our unhealthy and destructive self – ==preoccupation==
Rule of Thumb: If it causes you and others harm, then it is likely a disordered attachment.
Note: harm isn’t always immediate
Remember: disordered attachments lead to disordered decisions.
So don’t discern when you’re attached! You’d lack the interior freedom to decide properly