Life's more spaishee when you're a spaishee addict

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"Spaishee" organically came to mind one day when I overheard a man tell the waitress at a Thai cafe whether he would like his dish spicy or non-spicy. He replied, "Spaishee,"  and the waitress politely corrected him, "Sir, I think you meant to say "Spai-Cee." At this well intentioned remark, the man turned to the lady and said, "Yes, I am well aware of that. But you see, I am a spice addict, and I am also a love addict. Eating a spicy dish is like loving a woman--they both makes you sweat, tear up, and  hurt, but damn is it worth it. Even when I tell myself that it's bad for me, I keep on coming back for more because it excites and thrills me. So you see, the spice is so valuable to me, it deserves to be called a She."  

This altruism inspired me to write about addictions, some lived personally and others lived vicariously. My attractions broaden as I go about this life, often times with a direction just so I can deliberately detour. It's in those adventures and misadventures that I stumble upon fascination and awe. I must disclose that by falling in love you run the risk of a heartache, by living with a wanderlust heart you may be faced with the unknown, and by getting lost in the adventure you may bear the burden of loneliness. Yet these wayward people wouldn't have it any other way. Given the choice of going the straight and narrow or traversing the winding path of the unknown, time and again, they'll choose the latter, and so will I. 


-MJ
The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day! 
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 



Robert Frost
According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: 

To be addicted is...
As a transitive verb
1: to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively 
2: to cause addiction to a substance in (a person or animal)

An Addict is...
As a noun:
1: A person who is addicted to a particular substance, typically an illegal drug
2: An enthusiastic devotee of a specified thing or activity.

Origin of ADDICT
Latin addictus, past participle of addicere to favor, from ad-+ dicere to say — more at diction
First Known Use: 1534

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