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A Christmas Song You've Never Heard

JonesCarpeDiem
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      This is the time of year we look for friends from the past, memories of earlier times come bubbling up, often with our wishing we could relive them.

      With Christmas nearly here, I was reminded of a song I was asked to write for a Christmas Eve service in a movie that was never completed. The movie was called "An Act Of Faith."  I had a sleeve of old songs I recently stuck in the pocket of my guitar bag and found it there.

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I don't think I've played the guitar or sung for a year and a half and I have a recorder I don't know how to use yet.  🙂  If I can muster the energy, I'll try to record and post a video before Christmas Eve. It may just be me and a guitar.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.