Five Years
Who the hell is going to listen to me? Five years is an eternity for any guy who is trying to notch his first five *hours* without nicotine. And let's face it: There are a lot more dudes here right now with five hours under their belt. Or five days, or five weeks. And it ain't easy for them.
To those guys, I'm like the chupacabra: mean and nasty and very very cool and probably not real.
Five years? On March 24, 2009, I couldn't picture being dip-less for five years. It was laughable. I was surely not going to make it. I wasn't committed, and I knew it, but I was going through the motions to "quit" anyway.
Then I stumbled onto KTC. I went into chat. Someone asked me, "Are you quit?"
My answer was something like "That depends." As far as I knew, it DID depend. I was "quit" for what...two days? That wasn't quit. Was it?
About fourteen dudes in chat proceeded to run a train on me, spewing vicious hatred and judgment, telling me to fuck myself and whatnot if I dared have a cheek full of dip while in chat.
I liked that.
Yes, goddamn it, I was QUIT.
For the first time, that word meant something to me. I wasn't "trying" to quit. Or trying to "be" quit. I was just fucking quit. Noun, verb, adjective, adverb quit. This is my quit. I quit. That's a quit look you have on your face. I'm quitly shitting.
It's all I was for many months. Just quit. I didn't have the strength to do or be more.
I got stronger, though. And then months became years. And here I am. A GOD. Just like you.
Because you're quit.