There’s a dark side to everything –especially to living in Egypt, the country that is progressively growing more capable than a maximum security prison of making you psychologically ill. With all that is happening, presumably a lot of people -myself included- are nurturing a secret life in hopes for blowing some steam off. Due to ludicrous socially and politically imposed reasons, many forms of self-expression are deemed to have an evident consequence. As a result, sometimes one cannot help but search for a powerful remedy that could hush all the pain, frustration, and anger inside. Because isn’t it instinctive to search for a painkiller when there’s a lingering chronic pain? Usually, this is how an addiction grows. The definition of an addictive behavior transcends being linked to mere substance abuse. Addiction is the consuming behavior that sends us to wonderland for a second, a minute or an hour then drags us back to hell for a much longer duration. Whatever we indulge in for temporary distraction and relief, while consciously knowing that we are repetitively making things worse, is an addiction. Yet oftentimes, it feels like quitting is an impossible…
