Drilling Down to the Root Cause of Addiction
Alignment disorder
I am an editor of ILLUMINATION. In a moment that illuminates the wonderous synchronicities afforded to every single person on Earth, just a few minutes ago, moments from an intention to return to bed, I hopped into our “Q” and at the very top of the list of articles awaiting review for submission, I found Fahim Chughtai’s story The Root Cause Of Addiction. Instead of struggling to go back to sleep or struggling to write through tiredness, I now find myself so energized by the serendipities I just discovered that I found myself dancing in my chair to Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Coldplay and then to Pumping On Your Stereo by Supergrass, and now every tear has indeed turned into a waterfall as Candy Flip’s beautiful cover of one of my favorite songs by my all-time favorite band, the emergence of whose innovative sound proves the existence of higher powers, Strawberry Fields Forever, caresses my senses.
As an INTP-Aquarian, I march to the beat of my own drummer, and thus I do not seek out articles at the bottom of the Q to clear into acceptance — I look for articles that say “Marcus, thank the Gods you found me.” This is the first time I grabbed the most recent submission, which coincidentally had been lucky-for-me/us rejected by Stephen Moore as not a good fit for whichever publication(s) he edits. I published…
