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The Transition

JonesCarpeDiem
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Well! Here we are at the EX!

All of us a little different

Don't WE look like Happy Smokers? Don't WE think we have life on a string?

Some affluent, Some not. Some in the cold, Some in the hot.

Some of us want to quit, some of us don't. What sparked us to be here? What do we want?

If we wrap ourselves in learning, and prepare to make us willing

To learn we're losing nothing and finding out the truth.

Let's Wrap!

Let's Learn!

What makes us want to burn?

And when we have let go, Of everything that's told us NO

We can be free...

And Fly Away!

"You have to do some cocooning to become a butterfly"

 

 

 

disclaimer: no spicebrush swallowtails were hurt in this enactment  :j

13 Comments
linda.mustafa
Member

I've always loved the last sentence "You have to do some cocooning to become a butterfly" 🙂

Thank you Dale x

elvan
Member

LOVE THAT!  

ninepatch
Member
Great one. We know we want it so go and get educated. Learn you are not losing a thing. Cocoon yourself in fresh air and fresh positive thoughts. Love this Dale
Deena-A-Yenni
Member

Enjoyed your post.  Beautiful.  Thank you for being here!!

Ms.J_11-10-2013

Great one Dale...You made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

jackie

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freeneasy
Member

Very Nice (-:

sunflower32
Member

I absolutely love that 🙂

GreenThumb3
Member

Awesome

karen230
Member

Love it! Cocooning is a wonderful discription of the stage before FREEDOM!

linda258
Member

Great job Dale .... a very positive, uplifting and beautiful blog.  

lois2
Member

A-MEN

brenda-again
Member

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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.