My dear Phillip:
From the first day you appeared on the SSC I took a personal interest in your progress and non-smoking well being. I really declared you a winner from the get go not withstanding the personal hell you would experience. I have preached attitude and adjusting to a major life-style change that all would undergo during the quit process. I am going to stay with you and I hope that you are able to stay with yourself.
Depending on what stage we are in our lives, we can sometimes feel like we ought to know more about who we are or how to live. We may even berate ourselves for making the same mistakes, or for just not "getting it," whatever "it" may be. We wonder how our lives would be now, if only we had "known better." During moments like these, it is important to remember that none of us are born with instruction manuals and that learning lessons is a lifelong journey.
Inherent to our being born is that we are here to observe, learn, and grow. Accompanying this is a built-in guarantee that there will be mistakes and misadventures along the way. And while it is only natural that we may sometimes become overwhelmed, especially when the lessons keep coming, it is important to remember that learning to understand yourself and your world is an ongoing and active process where the journey is more important than the destination. Every lesson is intended so you can become more of who you are. And as you grow through this self-discovery, you begin to create your own instruction manual. The "how's" and "why's" are yours to discover, and part of the beauty of being alive is that these rules are always changing.
If you feel that you would like to explore what your personal instruction manual may already say, then try writing down in order some of the significant events that have happened to you. It's also important to take note of what you learned from each one. When you are done, you may be surprised to discover how much you are always growing, and that every lesson learned always informs the next. That being said, there is never any need to be hard on yourself or think that you should have it all figured out. We always know as much as we're meant to know at that moment, and growing into our fullness is a process that unfolds in divine timing.
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Quit Meter
$283,837.50
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 6812
Hours: 5
Minutes: 6
Seconds: 5
Life Gained
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Quit Meter
45414
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
1,135,350
Cigarettes Not Smoked
