Addiction or ?

There is something very similar yet different from the energy of addiction and the energy of passion . In a book on addiction it stated that highly successful folks all have the addictive personality , but they choose to Chanel that energy into their passion whereas the addict choses that energy to feed his desires . We have people who are so passionate about their career, profession , about their love , work , music , etc . Would u call Steve Jobs addicted to the creation of Apple ? Or passionate towards his field . The same goes for all very passionate folks . On the other end of the spectrum is the addict who will do whatever to feed his desires . When someone is passionate they are basically looking to please their mind , while the addict is looking for bodily pleasures such as food, drugs , sex , . In essence the passionate gets a serotonin hit while the addict gets a dopAmine hit . One is looking for pleasure while the other is looking for joy and happiness . One wants to please the mind , one only wants to please the body . There is nothing morally wrong in living your life devoting it to just please the body . But then there’s no diff between us and animals . The reason we are called HUMAN BEINGS is cause only we have the choice to BE HUMAN or not . The lion is not called a LION BEING , a tiger is not called a TIGER BEING . That’s cause animals can only live to feed their basic needs . U won’t see animals trying to expand their consciousness or create music or poetry . An animal is ordained by nature to know only what it needs to survive and nothing more . Now when we live life only fulfilling our basic biological needs we are still living beings , but no where have we risen to be human . To be human is to rise above our basic biology. Only we have the ability for cognitive reasoning , expansion of consciousness and to create the life we choose . Yet so many of us squander this gift away on watching pixels and running after pleasure when we should be pursuing joy .