Why People have Addictions?

So I've mentioned the tendency for all people to have a need for permamence in life, but where does this need come from? Why can't our brains function without one form of attachment or another? The answer lies in how we do work: we are good at executing something when our attention is devoted entirely to that task. Whether the job involves specialized blue collar workforce or top-management executive, all of us have to specialize within a certain framework.

Generally our minds are scattered with random thoughts the majority of which have no relation to the task at hand. However, when we develop concentration for a certain function (which can also be broadly defined), our mind's focus helps bring only those thoughts that are relevant to the task. And since all of us want to be functional/successful in life (in some way, which can be as little as to get up in the morning), we all have this desire for concentration and permament focus. And there always is one - even if we don't see it at the time of childhood education, work, or post-retirement activities.

Yet, when the clear focus toward some progress/success disappears (career/work/school), we crave for an object that we can control and keep permament. This most often results in marriages, drugs, children, smoking, eating disorders, game addiction and so forth.

Then, how do we solve this problem? How can we develop a focus that will be permament but will not lead to forbearance of such modern desires as monetary gains and social acceptance? The key here is to develop one single broadly (but well) defined focus that closely matches with your principles, purpose and overall laws of individual's social function. And because you can develop that focus in such a way that as a subconsequence you will achieve all other longings, you are not dependant on any instability within the outside world.

After all, that focus comes from within!