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Even Mailboxes Are On Lockdown

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-31-2020 10:19 AM

Remember when you could drop mail in one of the blue USPS boxes 24/7?

NOT ANYMORE

Last day of this year:

      As I get older I always get a little melancholy the end of each year. I wonder if my friends survived and want to touch base with them to see how they are.

        I tried calling an old friend two days ago to see if she was still kicking and plan a possible trip to see her. She was in the last group I was on the road with and was also best man at my wedding.  (I got married on the road and the rest of the group were on break and travelling to Vegas for our next gig.) Her phone said no mailbox was set up.

      I decided to write her a letter to ask her to call me as I couldn't reach her on the last number I had for her.

When I went to the drive through,

this is what I found.

Every friggin mailbox

was on lockdown!

Locked Mailboxes.jpg

 

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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.