Addict:

a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.

American Psychological Association (APA):
addict. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved January 08, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/addict
Modern Language Association (MLA):


We have returned to the origins of this thread. Success in aviation requires complete and total commitment in order to advance. Sometimes there is a place for an outside life however mostly there is not. The relentless lust for flight, and for success as a pilot, has the ability to consume all other possibilities and the addicted are usually unaware of what has been lost until it is too late.

Few other career choices demand as much. The afflicted make choices and take actions that would seem to be counter productive to a normal balanced and happy life. Perhaps they are destined to this fate? Natural selection might be using the allure of aviation to cull those unfit for a prosperous place in society.

Whatever the reason the afflicted become invested to an unnatural and unhealthy degree. In the end this is only a job and a mediocre one at that.

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