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| * Stick with it; By user29029 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 8 2016, 07:20 PM (1,435 Views) | |
| DWEIRICK | Apr 8 2016, 07:20 PM Post #1 |
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Only the strong survive...
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You've gotten some great feedback here, I hope you take it to heart. It is definitely easier now, with lots of days of changed habits behind, but it always haunts and lurks. I watched the NCAA Championship game with a friend of mine who quit chew probably two years before I did. He was one of the inspirations to me to quit, even though we never discussed it. I couldn't believe he quit, and I figured it was something I should pay attention to. During the game, he pulled out a can of Cope. It was as if he pulled out a loaded gun and set it on the table - it was that shocking and jarring to see. I said "Whoa, what's going on there?" He said "Yeah, you want some? I only chew pouches now, and only when I'm drinking. But I should quit again." I know he read me, and when I turned him down, he didn't say anything else. I will follow up with him, but here is the thing - I could hound him to quit, but quitting is about ourselves, not someone else. If we don't willingly sign up with a group like this, who will keep us accountable, and from whom we welcome input, we are on our own. Like I said, I will follow up, but I've told the group of jackasses in October that I quit with them, and I want their accountability. He never asked me for the same. He is my friend, so I will mention it, but he doesn't have to tell me every morning that he quit all over again. You tell me - do you think he will really quit again, and make it stick, just going the way he is? You already know the answer, since you decided once to go it alone. I'm glad you came back, because you are a reminder to us of how valuable and rare this is. I don't have another group of people like this in my life. I have friends, sure. But I keep intimate shit like this to myself, and I imagine the rest of this group is similar. King Nothing lost his brother recently. I thought about him every day for weeks, and texted him like a girlfriend. I'm not the kind of person to do that for my best friends. On this site, we get to drop our guards. This is more than just a place to log your days and heap shit on cavers. This will be woven into the fabric of your core, if you let it. And believe me, you want to have what we have. Stick with it this time, brother. |
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You can't build a solid quit on a broken foundation so everyday I'm building new blocks..... "At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure." | |
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