Some of us struggle to avoid eating candy.

Not me.

I have struggles, pretty bad ones, they suck most of the joy out of my life, but candy isn’t one of them.

Why am I talking about candy?

There is candy all around me right now.

There’s a fancy tin box full of candy for Bruno.

There is a huge plastic box of candy to offer to students sitting on top of my printer.

The candy is sitting on top of my printer, not the students.

There’s another tin box with candy.

One to the left of me, one to the right of me.

My struggles won’t give me a moment’s peace this week.

But it’s not candy.

I always wonder what the origin of my problems is, how they evolve, my role in creating them, etc.

I never wonder why I don’t have different problems.

Why am I not addicted to sweets? Sweets don’t appeal to me at all. Though I appreciate their colors, design and sometimes I like to smell some.

I don’t have a heroin addiction.

Didn’t pursue a taste for cocaine I had very briefly in my twenties.

I overdid alcohol last year, in 2023 and in 2022, but I don’t have a real alcohol problem. Once am off it I see how little I like or need it and how destructive it is.

My system is healthy enough to never be drawn to gambling.

I’ve had a small video games addiction, but since it’s very difficult, almost impossible, for me to get into new video games, video games can’t hook me that much. You can find this info elsewhere on this site, there are six video games I can turn too. One I have milked to a point I am sure the makers would be scratching their heads over how I did it. A second one is so routine it’s something to keep my hands occupied while I watch stuff and listen to stuff. It’s more like a digital boardgame than a real video game, actually except for one, they’re all like that. There’s a another one, but it won’t run on my laptop. Another one has lost its appeal. With the others am also running out of options to keep them entertaining.

Are there support groups for people not addicted to something?

Hi, I’m William, I have no addiction issues whatsoever when it comes to candy. I think it’s because candy was always readily available in my childhood, it was never forbidden fruit. I never saw my dad eat candy and my mum has an eating disorder, but it didn’t center around candy. Am glad I can come to this center and talk about how am not struggling with candy. Thanks for listening, you guys, you’re the best. Our bitter tooth club means the world to me. I have to go to my never any gambling addiction support group now. The no scratch club.

And then I go celebrate by engaging in the bad stuff I do find hard, impossible, to resist. Checking if there’s still self-indulgent folk out there that scream from the roof tops that the Democrats are good and only the Republicans and third parties suck. The worst kind of arrogant simple minded folk who imagine themselves towering giants. To be bothered by people like that is as bad, as unhealthy, as self-sabotaging, if not worse, as eating too much candy.

I kept it short today, because writing long texts, I know with every rational cell in my body, cannot reach the masses is one of my other non-candy related issues.

Have a great morning, Peter, Joe, Annelies and Marianne.

I survived another night full of demons, because the proper method is not available.