Addiction

When I was in primary school, I got addicted to drawing. I used to draw almost everything I see, Houses, trees, people, things, animals etc. I was not good at it but used to enjoy it. Well no one was against it except my mom. She used to tell me to spend more time on studies than drawing.

Since I have to spend more time on studies, I got addicted to writing. I used to write neatly using many colours. I used to write notes for my sister. I used to write for my friends. My mom was happy as she used to always see me with a book.

One evening my dad bought me TV- Video games as a present for my B’day. I got addicted to it. I used to play day and night. Every one at my home got irritated with the noise it makes. One weekend I played video game from Saturday afternoon to Sunday night. I did not eat or sleep. My mom got really worried and hid all the cassettes.

Then in secondary school I got addicted to sports. I was into co-co, basket ball, and athletics. I used to play till late it the evening and used to sleep like baby in the night. My mom was not so happy as I used to not get time to study. Then I joined a residential college.

There is nothing much to do in college except for studying. And I think I got addicted to it. I used to study all the time. I was surprised at myself that I was enjoying it.
My mom was very happy with my new addiction. This new addiction got me a seat into a very good university.

In Bits, I got addicted to sleeping. I slept all the time. I was surprised that I can sleep so much. Many times my friends kicked me out of their rooms during exams, as I sleep while studying and they feel like sleeping seeing me. This new addiction affected my grades badly.

Third year in Bits, I made a resolution not to sleep more than 6 hrs a day, that is I have to cut down by 50%, so to keep myself awake I started watching movies. I watched Movies on TV, theatre and CD’s. I watched countless movies. I ran out of movies very soon.

Then I got addicted to serials, all my friends used to follow few serials. I used to always have a book in hand while watching serials. During ads and songs, I used to read. I did not like ads much. Then serial stories became very routine and boring.

I came to France and I met many new people. My new addiction was gossip. I and my roomy used to talk about everybody on earth until late in the night. I was surprised that everyday we used to have some topic to debate and discuss. Our ideas were very different. We always argued. But then I realized it’s a bad habit to talk too much about others and judge them.

After that I got addicted to cooking. I liked trying new dishes. I used to invite my friends for lunch or dinner and cook elaborately.

My current addiction is cleaning. I am staying at this new apartment which I really like. It’s new and very sophisticated. I don’t know why, I can’t take if anything is out of place or dirty. I am sure my cleaning lady is very happy. But she is not good. She moves stuff and rearranges things in a way I don’t like. I think I need to change my cleaning lady. I hope i get out of this soon.

Not very bad....my addictions were ok kinds.