Say “Yes” To Life

I choose to track morale as the basis for understanding a human’s experience of living. Morale is capable of explaining in basic terms so much of the motivation that determines the pattern of the human being’s “acting out” in all the forms that it takes, with addiction being one of its most common forms.  But these definitions of demoralization do not clearly show, or directly reveal all the implications stemming from the relationship factor.  That is, the idea that the person is living in some meaningful social or relational context, and experiencing some “pain” in that “external” context.   In other words, addiction as one form of acting out is not best seen as a function of self-contained processes and internal relationships alone.   Morale, as an idea,  suggests an important motivational role is being determined and driven by the process of “being on the team,” of being a member of some group or a participant in some interpersonal “dance.’  You see in all the contexts in which the concept of morale applies, that it's referring to an important quality of our experience of living that's happening by virtue of our living in relationship to something or other that is external to us, something that generally involves other people.