Beyond cessation.

Gravity is evil.

Date:   4/17/2007 1:18:24 PM   ( 17 y ) ... viewed 1808 times

Look, you can only dwell on quitting cigarettes or coffee or sugar or what have you for so long. You can only count so many days or weeks or years before it really becomes meaningless, even boring. At some point, the weight of all those days of "deprivation" become heavy and dreary. Even a "relapse" seems almost exciting, different, new. To avoid this, we have to go beyond, to look beyond the past, even to forget the past. ("I've never liked to smoke cigarettes!") At some point, the sooner the better, we must look toward something utterly new, some challenge or puzzle or mystery that diverts us from the previous task. After just a few days we know we are faced only with a mental game...the game of breaking and destroying a psychological habit and addiction. Very quickly we have to evolve from "quitting" to "doing".

Give me a new addiction, a new habit, a new challenge and I will forgo the old one. Give me something to do and I will quit something else. This is holistic living: that I am never a patient, subject to the whims of others, passive to the side-effects of treatments; that I am a body in action. Maybe I smoked for years, ate for years, drank for years...well then I prepared my body for a new challenge, a set of knowledge and habits unknown before. I am prepared for new actions and new habits.

It may be that many people cannot or will not change. I know that I have not always been ready to change. Gravity is evil. But when we desire to change, the change should be big, impressive, and visible. People ought not recognize us! But we have to metamorphosis, we have to spend months, years even altering our minds and bodies. I have been quitting smoking for years, but I now am past it, moving on toward new things.

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