It's hard to make people understand this, but there's a certain giant retail store that I haven't set foot in for more than 4 years. They made me mad, one last time, and I realized when I left there every time I was irritated and so finally I said enough is enough. I threw down a 100-year ban (only 95-1/2 years to go!!) and have totally stuck with it.
Now relate that to drinking: Every day I say THIS is the day that I'm not going to stop at the store on the way home and buy some beer. Not going to drink it all while cooking dinner, and NOT going (usually) back to the store to buy more beer, all on some pretense of "oops, I forget to get xxx so I'll just run to the grocery and be right back". Every day I say that, and every day I fail. I realize that I'm able to do this thing that I want most in the world, to be a non-drinker ... and so what's stopping me? Nothing that I can see!
So tonight I decided that I could whoop that same ban on anything I want to! What a good feeling! I know it won't be easy, any easier than it was not to drive to that certain giant retail store (more of a habit than anything). But I did it, and I can do this too!
So that explains my ban whooping!
Now relate that to drinking: Every day I say THIS is the day that I'm not going to stop at the store on the way home and buy some beer. Not going to drink it all while cooking dinner, and NOT going (usually) back to the store to buy more beer, all on some pretense of "oops, I forget to get xxx so I'll just run to the grocery and be right back". Every day I say that, and every day I fail. I realize that I'm able to do this thing that I want most in the world, to be a non-drinker ... and so what's stopping me? Nothing that I can see!
So tonight I decided that I could whoop that same ban on anything I want to! What a good feeling! I know it won't be easy, any easier than it was not to drive to that certain giant retail store (more of a habit than anything). But I did it, and I can do this too!
So that explains my ban whooping!
Keeping it simple. Keeping it real.
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