You know, I don't really give a damn what you say about me. Use me as an example of a failure. Use me in posts to point out what a failure of a quitter looks like. I don't give a damn. Truthfully, if it helps to motivate someone else to stay quit then that's good. Now sure, I hate the fact that I've caved so many times of course. But I can't do a single thing to change the past. I can only do something differently each and every day that I'm alive here on this earth. And that really is that backbone of posting roll every day is it not? To make a daily promise - to break it down into just the simple concept of the "now" or merely "one" as opposed to tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now, etc.
What I'd really like you all to understand is that condescension and ridicule may be keeping folks from being in the brotherhood that is KTC.
Let us get this straight right here right now. Just because you are no longer succumbing to your addictions and someone else currently is, that doesn't make you any better than them! Just because you haven't caved and someone else has does not make you a better person than them! And you acting like it does in fact does NOT make it so!
Now, I don't expect to be understood at all with this post. In fact, the opposite. Just like I said in a previous post on the forums, I expect to be ridiculed, mocked, belittled, criticized, etc. And my point is to not say that that is ENTIRELY bad. In fact it may be good in some situations...
However, different people are gonna respond to different things in different situations, and you all belittling people on an anonymous message board dedicated to quitting dip frankly just makes you seem weak.
There are two (maybe three) people who stick out in my mind from this forum that make me want to NEVER give up in my quit. And I won't name them here right off. But they don't condescend, mock, and belittle. They are patient and kind. And that may be what some need.
If you think it's cool to insult me on this anonymous message board, go ahead. It makes you seem lame. I'll still be telling kids every day to quit dip when I see em' with a dip in their mouth. I'll still be tellin' kids to stop smoking cigarettes while they're 2 years in as opposed to 10!
Go ahead, use as an example - I'll still be quit! And I'll still effect change in people in my day to day life.
Bet.