IN DEFENSE OF ADDICTION BY LIZZIE CARTER

I cannot imagine living life without an addiction. While that is a terrible statement to tell your physician during a yearly check up, I don’t mean a substance abuse problem.

I am addicted to thinking. Not just regular brain function-thinking, but daydreaming. 

It is rarely related to my current life and it is never in tune with what I am doing at that moment, but I love to dream. This is where I find random inspiration, free from opinion and bias except my own. I seem to even break my own bias and judgement on particularly boring days full of dreaming.

It is these joyful, small, consuming thoughts that drive me to continue in what seems like a meaningless, midwestern life.

While I should stop smoking cigarettes, I will not stop my addiction to dreaming.