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Quitting Smoking Is The Perfect Time To Find Your Wonder.

JonesCarpeDiem
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I have a wonder!

It sustains me. 

I've always wondered how things work.

I always marvel at how the inventors created their inventions.

How engineers overcame obstacles.

How forces effect calculations.

      When I was 11, I took the family typewriter apart and put it back together. I had 5 extra pieces when it was done. 

      I got my first power tool at 8.

      I learned cabinetmaking from my dad starting at nine.

      When I went on the road at 18 as an entertainer it seems like a blur because so much living was compressed into those years. So much traveling and so many interesting people.

      Nowadays, wonder keeps me interested more than doing. As I reach my end,  I believe wonder is what keeps life interesting.

      I watched a fairly long video yesterday of a pine tree being removed that was right next to a house. It was all executed meticulously. They even laid down the large log cuts for the the lowest 30 feet to fall on. It was like a perfect quit. They didn't count on the force of that base breaking the water main.   Who would've known?

Find Wonder If You've Lost It.

Quitting Smoking Is The Perfect Time.

It's Still Free, And Very Freeing.

It's kind of fascinating to watch how a HUGE tree is felled without doing major damage to something close to it. It makes you wonder.

Pine Tree Removal - Part 1 - YouTube 

Pine Tree Removal Part 2 - YouTube 

the end of part two is where you see the water bubbling up under the tree. 

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About the Author
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.