Yeah, it seems too easy.
Of COURSE i quit smoking a week ago,
when i started inhaling vapor.
But this forum is giving me lessons in semantics and subtleties
and the question has ramifications all over the board,
including on the legal front.
I have to say up front that most of the time
i'm tickled, i'm ecstatic, i'm even proud of myself
for all of the urges i've successfully avoided these past seven days.
But i've STILL got this nagging little vestigial genetic Puritan
telling me that i haven't accomplished a damn thing.
How can this be?
In the past week, i've...
- Regained my
sense of smell.
- Ceased to stink, (i can tell b/c i can smell me).
- Increased my sex drive.
- Increased my availability to my relationship, because i'm not out in my
shop smoking.
- Broadened and deepened my spiritual practice, in a fuller recognition of the sacred nature of my breath.
- Etc., and also i have fundamentally altered the premises of my marriage by the above changes in behavior, attitude, and odor.
But *i* didn't accomplish anything?
The little bastage says not,
because i haven't suffered for my sin
nor the moral lapse that caused the sin in the first place.
What's up?
How do YOU feel?
I know of at least one other forum-ite whose conscience won't let him tell anyone
that they've gonna "quit smoking" by using an e-cig instead.
(I'm not calling you out, sir, just sayin')
- joe
