Courage.

My experience with desire and addiction isn't one only of drugs and anything else I can ingest snort and smoke.
And those mind altering substances I have taken, none of those can compare to some other desires that now days are no longer a posed threat, and yet they cause great deals of suffering for the human that becomes addicted to their desire, and hope.
Also, I do not suggest that drugs are not addicting.
Some powerful desire craved by a lot of people these days is to comfort their suffering, however they can. This is escaping the very issue at hand, and whatever blame that you have external of you're self is merely avoiding the point, the word "scapegoat" comes to mind. In the broadest sense of the word.
And the influences include just about everything we see as existing in our physical reality. Outside of ourselves and true being.
And it takes true courage to come to the realization of the depth and meaning we have put into our insecurities and suffering, and we are so afraid of what that will mean to us as beings. What will we become? Without this person I believe I am to be?
Ask yourself the question.. where am I? If I have such stories and a set of morals, beliefs and emotions to go with them, then where is this? In my head? if so which part? The left or the right side? Do you know where that being of who you are to be, is?
Whatever we are trying to find and grab, is the ultimate trap within us all. That we must be constantly chasing something in our lives to bring us paradise. And that's the greatest illusion behind every mask we commonly see today, my own reality has it that there is an incredible amount of people, hiding.
Again, because some of these tender issues are so deep, so covered up by years of selfishness and sorrow, an ultimate courage is really needed to even come to realise that, and sharing this with the people who you afflict with the blame is even harder.
And deep within us all, there is a need to release these things, the amount of pain some people go through is obscure and horrifying. I discovered that my own city has an alarming amount of suicide compared to other places in the world.
All because we believe we are the stories we have created.

And the amount of courage it takes to take this responsibility on you're shoulders, and really create true freedom, for not only you're self, but for everyone you ever come into contact with. This is only a snippet of what kind of shift the world will have.

It just takes one person to shift the worlds consciousness, and it takes every ones willing participation.