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Share your quitting journey

Why?

Chuck-2-20-2011
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Good morning to all of you wonderfully committed people!

 

I was asked the other day why I still come to this site if I found freedom over three years ago. The implication being that I might still need the support. Bottom line is, once we become an addict, there’s always that chance somewhere down the road where the addict within will for some reason choose to make an encore appearance one day in our futures. For this reason I would always be grateful for a site like this one.

 

But there’s a bit more to it than that. For me, I come here to see the most committed people in the world tackle something that can seem so daunting to us at first. To see a group pull together for the good of each other and to commit a part of our lives to each other as we ourselves struggle and fight our own personal battles is something beyond inspiring!

 

It’s the reality of the addiction that brings me here. That, and the fact that I’ve managed to find peace in my quit. I’ve managed to find comfort in life rather than finding comfort in addiction.

 

This was done with the help of others when it was hard for me. In fact, this web site was an integral part of my quit plan when I quit. I used the strength of the many to bolster my own strength. I used the many beacons of success that shines here to help me to create my own success, for by seeing that it can really be achieved, I was able to achieve it myself.

 

Now I come for different reasons, though a lot the same. Now I come like so many others to help those new on the path to understand that there is a freedom like no other awaiting each of us down the road so long as we don’t waver. To understand that eventually the addicted mind calms and that there is peace ahead. A kind of peace that only comes from a mind freed of a consuming desire that can bring no good.

 

I come here to share stories of my own personal hell in in the hopes that some might not feel so alone when they must face their own. For though the journey seems so different to each of us, the reality is that it’s much the same. The reality is that we must beat the same internal monster that lives within us. It doesn’t matter how we do it so long as our ending is success. And for that I come here to see that success. To relish in the joy that comes from seeing yet another person make it to that shimmering summit that I call Mt. Freedom.

 

To see yet another brave soul free themselves from shackles that we spent so long placing within ourselves, pulling them back out one by one until all that is left is that incredible peace. That amazing wonder of life that we start to again feel as our bodies heal from the ravishing addiction that we forced upon it.

 

I come here to throw the ropes down the slopes of Mt. Freedom in the hopes that some can grab that rope and climb even more confidently to the summit for without a belief that we will get there, then how can we even start?

 

So stay true to your hearts my friends. Stay the course of your journey on the road of life and try to look to the rewards that await you instead of wallowing in your personal discomfort. Our freedom lies ahead in that wonderful future that we’re creating now. That’s where peace resides as well.

 

So grab a line and climb on up to the top of Mt. Freedom. So many of us are waiting there for you because when you reach the summit. When you can grab that banner of freedom and waive it high over your head for all to see well; This is the achievement that we all come here for! This is the day that we once again have the chance to see something magical!

 

Because every time another of us truly finds peace is a day of celebration for all. It has to be because on this site. With this group of people. We all understand just what it took to get there!

 

Keep climbing my friends!! I can’t wait to see you on that summit!!

 

ONWARD TO FREEDOM!!!

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