what my addiction speaks
escape from myself..even i am boring, my life is boring , my thoughts are so complicated, so somewhat rest in form of escape That's a different conversation than "I have bad habits." If you're escaping from yourself, then the phone, music, porn, food, shows, and scrolling are not the disease. They're painkillers. The mistake would be to conclude that because you're escaping yourself, you must therefore be terrible company. People often say, "I'm boring," when what they really mean is: "I don't enjoy being alone with my own mind." Those are not the same thing. You describe your thoughts as complicated. Notice what happens when the stimulation stops. Your mind immediately presents a pile of unresolved stuff. Questions, worries, self-analysis, comparisons, regrets, plans, confusion. That's mentally exhausting. So the phone isn't competing against reality. It's competing against mental effort. And frankly, infinite entertai...