Somewhere in time we as a society lost the ability to accept responsibility for our actions. Therefore, in order to assuage our guilt and shift the blame elsewhere, we’ve devised a variety of different scapegoats. One is attributing evil to medical disorders. No longer is the reason for someone’s base deed attributed to the evil intent of their heart, but now it’s attributed to some psychological or medical disorder. “They were beaten as children” or “she’s got PMS” are now perfectly acceptable reasons to commit wicked acts.
My friend informed me that there is now a drug for PMS. At one time, women just accepted this as a part of life and dealt with it. Now, there’s a drug to rid oneself of this “problem.” Oh, I can hear the entire female readership screaming, “You are a man, so you don’t know what it’s like! If you had to deal with it every month you’d want a drug for it, too!”
Surely, the chorus of women thinking this doesn’t believe that PMS is any worse for them than it was their predecessors. If they believe that, then they truly are naive. But the question here is even if I was female and had the pleasure of experiencing PMS, would I need to take a drug to alleviate it? Why depend on yet another drug to take away my problems?
This mentality extends far beyond the PMS drug. That was just an example. The mentality here is that soon we’ll all just be able to explain away our deeds and take some drug to make us feel better and ultimately, make us happy.
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but most of what people do is not due to some medical or psychological condition. It is simply because someone had nothing but malice in their hearts. Why won’t they admit it then? Well, that would make them a “bad person” and no one wants to be a “bad person.”
So, they write it off as some medical or psychological condition and prescribe some drug for it, but the root of the problem is never fixed — the intent of their heart. And we wonder why there’s all this talk of prescription drugs in the media. Get a clue, folks.
Unfortunately, the problem will not go away until people begin to look within themselves and start making the changes there. We don’t need a bunch of drugs to make our lives better. True happiness is not a response to outside stimuli. Happiness is a decision that a person makes every morning when he or she wakes up. If we become too dependent on medical drugs to ease our pain and increase our level of happiness, then we will always be disappointed, and we’ll see society continue to sink. How often is the suffering only in our mind, yet we resort to drugs to take it away for us?
Let’s not continue to just write actions off as medical cases. It’s time that
we start taking responsibility for our actions and leaving our drug dependencies
behind.
Think about it.