The De-addiction Drive

Have any of you ever gone on a de-addiction drive?I guess you must have because this is the thing we humans do the best-get addicted.At one point of time I used to boast that i don't have any addiction. Alas it is not true anymore. For the past two years I too have been suffering from an addiction. Now my addiction is a little different- it's neither of nicotine nor alcohol nor drugs. It's not that I've become a technological geek and am glued for hours to either T.V or computer.My addiction is the worst kind.. It's of a person. Yes, the dreamer got addicted to a person.. let's call him Mr. X.



So now you can have some idea of my peril. There is no professional help which I can take. No Alcoholics Anonymous for my rescue..No de-addiction centers.In fact, majority of people would not consider it a problem at all.They will think of it as a prelude to a new relationship etc. etc.But the problem is that's not the case.



Let me give you a little background so that the thing is clearer. The dreamer met Mr. X in a coaching class. Unlike bollywood romances nothing happened at the first sight. Infact for the dreamer the first sight did not happen for a good one and a half months.Then one fateful day the dreamer sits in front of Mr. X. Now nothing would have happened but as it turned out Mr. X was quite witty and his comments kept the dreamer entertained all through the boring lecture. Now the dreamer really appreciates wit and from next day onwards made a conscious effort to sit around Mr. X. Within a few days it happened that the dreamer started sitting beside Mr.X and they started talking. Then in dreamers life a new thing appeared. A mobile phone.. As you know the dreamer takes to technology very late..so after trying to evade this technological device for years finally the dreamer had to submit to it and had a mobile phone in hand. Things still would not have taken a wrong turn but Mr. X asked for the number. Now the dreamer being very innocent and naive about the ill effects of exchanging numbers gave it.As it turned out both of them were using the same mobile company. Now the cruelty of fate did not stop there. As it turned out the mobile company for promotional purposes made messaging very cheap at 1 paisa each message. The dreamer got trapped in this and then the addiction started. Mr. X and the dreamer started messaging each other like crazy. It started with 1 or 2 messages a day and reached up to 70 to 80. In the exhilaration of the new device and new friend the dreamer got more and more entangled in the web. Now let me also tell you at this juncture that this addiction is very hard to detect in the beginning.



But to cut the long story short this messaging continued for a very long time. The dreamer also came to know quite early that Mr. X is an engaged man and happily going around for the last 3-4 years.In the mean time the coaching classes came to an end but the chatting between dreamer and Mr. X continued uninterrupted.


Next part of the story in the next post.