Restraint

"Everything is good in moderation"

I've been faced with this fact threw all my addictions.
When I have followed one thing over and over again that it becomes all I know or think on.

It happens with drugs, EASILY.
It happens with sex, when your body craves the touch of another or yourself.
It happens with love, when you truly follow your heart off that cliff your head tells you not to.

In every pleasure there is a limit.
One that you must implement yourself.
One that only you can truly enforce.

What is that limit? How do you know when to say 'when'?
A persons limit only they can find for themselves. What reaches they can stretch themselves around is only within their knowledge and motivation to change.

I have basic limits that I believe are key boundaries that we cross.

1) When something has become so strong you risk harm to yourself or the people around you.
(Harm being emotional, physical, financial or any other non-productive act)

2) When what your doing must be hidden from those who care about you.
(Anything your not happy to tell your family about should not be considered productive)

These lines should never be crossed when dealing with anything in excess.
For when these lines are broken you head down a path of self-destruction.

Remember always to check yourself
or have close friends to check you for you.
but even then open lines of communication is needed.