Avoiding Addictions

Through today's technology, addictions can emerge in many different forms. Anything that you spend a disproportionate amount of time doing that begins to replace the important things in life can be considered an addiction. Common addictions today include activities such as video gaming, social media sites and role-playing games. Sometimes I may plan on spending only two minutes on Facebook and ten minutes later I'm completely unaware of how much time has past and how it happened. I know many of us face this challenge and not just with Facebook. I have heard that game producers actually try to make their games as addictive as possible. A sign of an addiction is indulging yourself in a certain activity rather than spending time with family or friends, sleeping at night, participating in social activities, gaining a better education, or nurturing your spiritual needs. When a specific activity takes over your life, you are in danger. Satan will try anything to get you to skew your priorities causing you to waste time on the wrong tasks. When this happens you lose sight of the eternal perspective drawing you farther from the eternal goal. It is crucial that we all stay focused on seeing things as they really are  and not become distracted by the things of the world