Dear Addiction,

Hello. You have made your way into the relative lives around me yet again. I have seen you in all forms, but never one this heinous.

I've seen you in alcohol, in medication, in self harm, in drama and gossip, and in vanity in the lives of many peers in school and dear friends of mine.

You have a way of sneaking up on someone when they least expect it, a rustle of the leaves in the middle of the night, a whisper in a daunting forest.

I know the chemical imbalance that comes along with it contributes to the impossible factor of being able to get over you. To put you in the garbage disposal and push you deeper and deeper so you are never to be seen or heard from again.

You are toxic and detrimental. You do not repair, sew, or love. You tear, separate and contaminate.

With your negative ghoul of advice gnawing at the back of an innocent human's head, you spin their mind into an underworld of desperation, loss, and dependence.

Why is it that you have not found yourself in positivity? Why haven't you been associated with addicted to friendship, to smiles, to laughter and love? Why haven't you warmed the hearts of many and changed the lives of all in a positive, influential way as oppose to a damaging one?

It is 2017 and sadly my generation is introduced to a whole new string of you. In different forms. Even in video games and social media.

You have destroyed homes, relationships, and conversations. You have contaminated the lives of many and ruined trust and torn down barriers and support.

You have taken the lives of many people who were too late in seeing your true colors, and this shade is not the one I care to support.