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Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 10:19 PM Jul 2022

Why isn't it easy?..It is not easy, never has been. Changing one's life is very, very, difficult. [View all]

. If it were easy, most would quickly accomplish the task...

Quitting Booze, Drugs, Smoking, or other such activities..(whatever they are, that you have been doing for a long time)
is not easy. Actually very difficult indeed

Why? It ain't easy to change one's life when you have been doing something for a long time. Books, plays, movies, etc,
have been written about trying to change one's life. We get addicted to some behavior, and we think that stopping it will
be easy. It seems so from reading a few magazines or stories on the internet/newspapers. But those that say it is easy
are lying and trying to sell something.

While waiting to check out at a food store, we may see many magazines with lots of articles about quitting this or that.
Those of us that have been addicted to various substances and behaviors know the truth. Quitting is among the
hardest things we ever do. I stand with everyone who tries and does not succeed the first time. The key is just 4 words.

DON'T EVER GIVE UP........DON'T EVER GIVE UP....DON'T EVER GIVE UP.....DON'T EVER GIVE UP...DON'T EVER GIVE UP..
DON'T EVER GIVE UP........DON'T EVER GIVE UP....DON'T EVER GIVE UP.....DON'T EVER GIVE UP...DON'T EVER GIVE UP.


So, you make a mistake...So what? In kindergarten over 70 years ago, I learned a lesson about mistakes....

They gave us pencils to write and draw with. If we made a mistake, there was a rubber thing on the end.
It was called an eraser. You used it to erase the mistake and write it over again.

45 years later, I got a computer, and I found the exact same idea as the eraser on the computer.
On this thing (I'm using now) in order to deal with a mistake, we use the DELETE KEY

We humans still make mistakes, & we need to correct them.
No one is perfect, not me, not you, no one.
Some of the greatest people in all of human history did not get it the first time....

Did Thomas Edison get it the first time?
Did Winston Churchill get it the first time?
Did Clark Gable become a star after his first movie?

And so on, and on, and on, and on.

DON'T EVER GIVE UP. ...PLEASE, DON'T EVER GIVE UP

Thank You for reading this...Stuart G




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