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Vent and Gratitude

Maki
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Ok , I'm really tired of whole stay at home thing . Summer is short , but gratitude I am able to stay home and still manage . 

I am really tired of stress but grateful that when I look at the past I've come through it all for better or for worse and lessons were learned . Hard yes fun no , but  I'm still here  and still Kickin . This stressor too shall pass . There are always lessons to learn . 

Vent .

I am hungry lol . Grocery day is a day away lol and Mamma Hubbards cupboards are bare and my breakfast is still a few hours away ( on a fast for BW  ) but I am grateful I have enough to eat in my home . Creativity is being nurtured these days .  I have much more than I deserve . 

I'm grateful for the folks who show me their their openness , their resilience and strength in hard times . They teach me about understanding , compassion and patience .

I just wanna hug them thank them and love them because they show me everyday that life should be MORE about love .. more about love . Shout it and show it . Say it often . It's food for the heart , mind and soul . 

One never can get used to complete solitude .  I think it's the disease carrier of the world . We weren't designed to be that way .

I am grateful today I again have the ability to change my thoughts . I don't have to stay in a dark place . I don't have to be sad . I can find joy in a walk , or gratefulness in the ability to write  mistakes and all . I have the ability to see , hear , touch and feel . I am grateful and blessed .  I still have the ability to bring light to the darkness in someone else's day that will in turn bring light to my day be it a kind word, a wave , a song , or an I love you . 

I am grateful for diversity . It's not colour coordinated what gifts each of us have .  I think of these right now but there are hundreds and thousands of ways we were gifted to give and to love   . I think of those who have been given the gift of humour for they makes me laugh and smile . I think of the encouragers who just have that knack for uplifting , they uplift so many every day .  I think of those with the gift of compassion because they've been there and they know the right words to say to someone grieving  then there are those with a song in their heart that makes people like me me dance and sing . These things , these people touch my heart .. you too ?

I am grateful for those who keep me on the straight and narrow with my quit and those who don't let me stray . These gifts are in each of us us and they are love when gifted to others . Thanks for all the gifts you've given me . Because of you I'm still quit . I am so Grateful to you . 

Ok , I feel better . A vent helps put things into the right perspective when you find the lesson and light in your woes instead of the dark .

We are all attracted to the positive so let's not live in the negative without the gratefulness  . The clouds will part and the sun will shine .

I hope you will find gratefulness in your day and please remind me when I'm feeling lost ( as I often am ) that gratitude can lift us up over and over and over . 

                   Have a great walk or a drive today today . If it's raining be sure to take an umbrella .

                                                                   If it's cold, a jacket .

                        Take a smile .  It looks good on you , share it with others , then both will smile .

                                             

                                 Sometimes it really can be the little things that are truly BIG @things  

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Smoker of 28 years . COPD recipient . My biggest help to quit was reading other successful quitters testimony as well as other quitters who would not give up and kept coming back determined to win . Also , some really hard work and helping others . I’ll have a thirteen years quit June 30 , 2024 . Biggest lesson learned : I learned that the “Just one” lesson is the key to everyone’s quit . Having “ none” not one puff , is the easy way to quit smoking . Post for help if it gets hard and before you have to own up to giving your quit away because if you do your quit can be saved . After the fact starts day one all over .I can’t tell you enough how worth it that is . Quit tools : Made use of my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses . Quit benefits , more time with my family , better quality of life , better self image . How I kept the quit : one day at a time , one step at a time . I told myself like a broken record : “ Don’t smoke ; Do something different “ then literally went and did something different other than smoking “ . Quitting is not complicated .It is really simply one word ( not one puff ever ) or nope , however , it will be the process of self discovery in this journey as you figure out things for yourself that can complicate things . How long will that be ? Well we are all different and we come from different backgrounds and smoked for different reasons so no one can really tell you when it will get easier for you only that it will . Be patient with yourself . Who cares how long it takes anyway because we all came to quit forever . This quit is for life , your life , so embrace it , welcome it , it’s the best thing you will ever do for yourself . The money you save get a bucket list of little rewards and big ones and do them . Change the things you can . Life is worth living . This gets easier , oh my gosh , so much much easier . Give it a season , give it two and you’ll never want to let go of your quit I promise you that . It’s wonderful , absolutely wonderful to be free . Quitting btw was the hardest thing I’ve ever done just like everyone here . I shed buckets of tears for weeks , yelled into a pillow , stuck my head into a cold bucket of water and paced aimlessly in head fog . Was it worth it , every bit of it ! Biggest improvement : , my health , the relationship with my family ( all non smokers thank goodness ) and finances . When I started 2011. I was walking three blocks with the use of inhalers for copd . Latest accomplishment : still on the inhalers no further advancement of copd . June 1 2023. Did my first 10 k . Next goal is my second 10k by the end of 2024 . I’m 68 years years young and I’m an Ex smoker . I was able to take three trips ( out of country ) with my family because I quit smoking . Time I never would have had had I not quit . Money from quitting paid for them . I want to say you are in control , take your power back from cigarettes from vaping or any addiction you might have . Life awaits you , don’t let it pass you by . Make the decision to stop and one day that light will shine upon you and make you a whole new you . Thank you to Quitnet members and Ex members for the support and encouragement to quit and stay quit . That along with my desire never to smoke again has given me a life long successful quit . No turning back , ever .