Caffeine makes me anxious, but reduces my dysphoria. I read, on a certain website, that caffeine boosts euphoria, and reduces boredom. Just reading that information, made me want to ingest caffeine. So I've been using caffeine for several years. I purchased a caffeinated product at the store, several years ago, and really loved the way it made me feel, so I continued purchasing caffeinated products, up to the present day. I am now addicted to caffeine, and I have no way of knowing if this would have happened if I had not purchased that very first caffeinated product. I'm assuming it would've still happened, but I don't know. Did I have free will when making that decision? I'm actually not sure, but it doesn't matter, the bottom line is that I am now addicted to caffeine, and I just have to live with it, for better or worse. Perhaps being addicted to a substance isn't such a bad thing, if that substance helps you in some aspect of life, such as improving your mood? It's a fair trade off, I think. Free will might not have had anything to do with it. But if this "choice", to become addicted to caffeine, was in fact, pre-determined, I would like to think it only happened for my own good.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
