>>>>>From now on, whenever you go out, on the way to wherever, buy no liquor, and then on the way home, do the same again. If you happen to actually be going to a store that sells liquor, do the same when you're in between going and returning.
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>>>>>I'm no expert, but if you stick to those rules, it should work out. ;)
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>>>>Do you really think it is so easy?
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>>>No it's not easy. You missed my 'wink' at the end. But having said that it's not easy, I know it works with nicotine; should work with liquor.
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>>Not easy - just not complicated.
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>So you say.
What I meant was, it is difficult to do what must be done, but what must be done is clear - don't drink - ever. It's not easy, but the solution is quite simple. The reason programs like AA are successful is that they focus on behavior modification over insight. When you are trying to stop any kind of addiction it may be interesting or even useful to know "why" but nothing is ever solved or resolved unless behavior changes, so that is where the focus has to be.
If you don't drink - ever - your life will be better. If you do, it won't. Everything else is obfuscation.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
