09-21-2012, 10:54 AM
(09-21-2012, 07:26 AM)Patti Wrote: Thanks Sean! Yes, you should absolutely try to get her to listen. I like you're enthusiasm, I can almost feel your energy right through the screen as I read your comments on mine and others posts!
I joined a forum the other day for people quitting smoking (because it helps to hear others having some of the same symptoms going on), and when I’m done with all the stages and if it has done it’s job and I have stopped completely, I’m probably going to try to get the word out more there about this program. I’m not sure what the protocols of that forum are and how much specifics I can give but there’s an awful lot of people on it looking for help. I need to get on there more and start telling my story but this program seems to be keeping my comp time limited lol so it’s working against that goal. But I will get too it.
One strange feeling that I’m having today is that I feel like I’m conceding to the program that it’s won and I’ve lost. I don’t understand why I feel like I’m losing because I’m winning…right?
Thank you for the compliment! I do my best to encourage others, paying it forward from my mentor who has done the same for me.
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Finally, this reminds me of a theme I've been observing this past week. Between Shannon's post on What-is-not, and the Youtube video on fear from the movie Revolver, and now your post, I need to look at how this applies to me. Fortunately, you can't help others without helping yourself, so this is a purely selfish section of my post. ;-)
The addiction to nicotine has pulled off the top con job in existence: it has tricked you into believing that it is a part of you. It is flailing around, because you are suffocating it of the energy it was taking from you parasitically. So it is losing. It is being reduced to a dust speck, and it is terrified. So it is using your belief that it is a part of you to inject the feelings that you are losing, despite the fact that you are winning.
Fear is a liar.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway