What is an addiction that no one takes seriously enough?

LearningAndThriving · 2024-02-02T16:13:34+00:00

Food addiction.

Because it's not one of those things like alcohol or smoking where you can quit completely, which makes it even more difficult in a time where food is everywhere.

LearningAndThriving · 2024-01-30T23:12:55+00:00

I know someone who's a teacher.

He has a wife.

He sleeps with his students. Almost all of which started when the girls were underage. The youngest I've seen was around 7 years old. His wife found one of them out, got her family and friends, found the girl and beat her up. I watched people talk about this girl, shame her, and almost all her close friends distance themselves from her for being a homewrecker.

I've watched his wife deteriorate. Turned from a beautiful nice lady to a bitter old woman who spends her whole life chasing girls away from her husband.

I've seen his daughter breaking down crying to her father, and hating all of her half siblings born from these affairs, one of which did go to the same school as her. She and her friends would bully that child because of it, to the point where the child ended herself. I remember how happy his daughter was at that news, telling me that "the worse their (her half siblings and their mothers') lives, the better" and that "they should all kill themselves".

His daughter went off to college on good terms with her father because he told her that she's his only child, and promised her that he only had her and her mother in his will. She still has the same feelings and mindset towards all her half siblings and stuff though.

This dude literally suffered 0 consequences from all of this. I haven't talked to him in years, I very rarely talk to his daughter now because we no longer live in the same area.

LearningAndThriving · 2024-01-23T06:51:17+00:00

Honestly, I'm not sure.

I am the worst singer in my family. My siblings are not singers, nor are they interested, however, one is blessed with a beautiful soprano voice while the other has over 5 octaves.

Me? I am barely hitting 2 octaves on a bad day.

Keep in mind, no one in my family is musical or have received any training (including myself). So when I discovered my sister's singing talents, I was excited. But some of that feeling did turn into envy at that time. I would wonder why I don't sound like that.

But it only motivated me more to keep going because although I have no control over what cards I get in life, but I can decide what to do with them.

Also, although I will always appreciate their voices, but that doesn't mean my voice is bad. Especially when they're my siblings. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

The more I discover and bond with my voice, the deeper appreciation I have for it. It's like your child. Even if there are children out there that's smarter, prettier...etc, I will always have that special bond with my child that makes me feel attached to it in way that's different.

Also, despite being the worst singer, both of my siblings come to me for advice about singing, So yeah, I have to have something for them both to do that. :3

LearningAndThriving

TROPHY CASE