Good day Exer’s!! I hope this message finds you secure in the fact that you’re a nonsmoker. The other day I was looking around my yard when I made what to me was an amazing discovery. There was a small group of leaves emerging from the ground. Now, this alone wouldn’t have caught my interest were it not for the fact that this plant had been pulled completely out of the ground by a hungry deer and lay there in the sun for a week before I stuck it back into the ground last fall. Thing is, this plant decided that it wanted to live more then anything. This little piece of nature somehow overcame the odds and as I see it will live this year and on into the next. Sometimes it’s the little things that can teach us lessons in life.
To me this showed that we are so much like that little plant that just wouldn’t give up. We become determined to see a future no matter what. Like the plant, we must stick a root firmly into the ground to hold ourselves in place as we fight our daily battle that in the end equals freedom. Like that plant we sense that as long as we do things right, then there really will be a future for us.
However, unlike that little plant we must determine just what it is that we must do to remain firmly rooted in our lives. We have to make not only a choice to live but we also have to determine just what we’re going to do to get there. We have to fight just like that little plant for the freedom that we want so badly. To live yet another year in relative health.
Still, the life of us humans are different because we can make choices. We can determine our own future by taking a different approach to the very life we’re living and sometimes all we have to do is change our method of thinking about things. Sometimes all we have to do is take the knowledge that is given to us and use it to change our lives.
Here at this site, we must face one of the most daunting tasks we might ever face. Here, we have to learn a new life. Here, we have to fight with ourselves until that day that we discover the glorious freedom that comes from beating an addiction. Here, we have to learn things about life and freedom that we might have never learned had we not taken that choice that we did. That choice to be free. That choice to be healthier. That choice to stop doing what we know is wrong and instead look into our hearts for the reality that is the new us.
So on those days when you feel like that journey is just so endless. When you feel weak and tired of it all. These are the days to remember the lessons that only determination can bring. To remember why we started this amazing journey in the first place. These are the days to think that if a single little plant that doesn’t even have a brain can figure out a way to a brighter future, then don’t you think that you can too?
Never for a moment believe that you cannot take back your life. Never for a moment believe that it’s not worth doing for the first moment that you put out that last cigarette is the moment that you proved to yourself that you will live a life of freedom no matter how hard it might seem.
Fight on my friends! Reach for that goal of freedom! This is a fight worth every bit of effort that it takes for though this fight can be long and filled with confusion, when it’s over you’ll understand not only your inner self but perhaps even the most basic of things in life like just what determination and a belief in yourself can do!
Have a wonderful smoke free day!
Chuck
