Seriously, if I had a time machine I'd:
- Go to Cabo Catoche, 1517, and watch the most cursed game of charades
- Give John Brown et al some semi-autos and a couple mags; C4 if I could manage it
- Go back ten years and slap that shit outta my mouth
floss.
it takes about just as long, you generally need to be away from people to do it, and it completely occupies your attention. it also is ideal after meals.
i fell out of the habit after a while but when i was doing it every day (and sometimes twice a day), my dental appointments were a cakewalk and the hygienist would affirm me as a good boy with healthy gums.
like talking daily walks, eating lots of fiber, and stretching, it seems like the kind of habit that pays dividends when you're older and everybody else your age is all fucked up and looks 15 years older than you.
Eating sunflower seeds from the shell like I'm a man sized squirrel usually helps me pass through any stimulant related withdrawal (amphetamines, nicotine, caffeine, although tbh i think im built different nicotine has always been easy to quit)
Agreed, what I would give to not stand outside in the winter-cold for five minutes at a time like a mad-man
In the 90's a lot of European guys got prayer beads in Turkey to replace the fixation of constantly fidgeting with cigarettes.
I'd use my time machine to
- go back to when I was 12 and give that girl some puberty blockers and a hug
- go back to January 1st, 1919 and tell Rosa Luxemburg to GTFO of Berlin
- go back to 218 BC and give Hannibal Barca some T 34s and a bunch of machine guns
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Play Satisfactory
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Play Factorio
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Play Stardew Valley
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Old School Runescape has an event coming up
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Read theory
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So real, you spend 10+ years partying all the time and when you try to quit that shit its like... now what ?
See my thing was I wasn't a crazy party drunk. Like I never blacked out and woke up 3 days later in another state or anything. I was a "buy a box or wine or case of beer and spend all day watching movies/gaming/walk around the park buzzed" drunk.
There's a lot of activities I like, but I like them WAY more when I'm buzzed. So now it's harder to engage in them. It's also harder to quit cuz I don't have some awful horror stories if me like... idk burning my moms house down cuz I was wasted like dudes in AA have. It was affecting me negatively in more subtle ways. Also I actually enjoyed drinking, it wasn't something I was doing just to stop the shakes or whatever.
I totally understand where you're coming from I think, I mean I've always liked my partying but just drinking and listening to my music or playing games has always been my shit. Not going to the club or bar is easy enough but the hardest thing is sitting at home after work on the weekend and trying to come up with reasons to not drink, very difficult.
I used to have physical addiction to alcohol and such in the past but have moved beyond that and am fine not drinking on weekdays and the like, but the weekend comes and I'm like... man I just wanna have some drinks and relax. Extremely hard for me to get away from that.
I also hate the idea of not being able to enjoy some drinks with coworkers after work or fellow football fans at the pub on the weekend. I'm definitely with you on the drinking affecting negatively in subtle ways. It is a tough thing to reconcile relationship with for a lot of us I think. You're so right when you say a lot of things are just more enjoyable not sober.
I'm probably going to do naltrexone over the summer break so I don't waste the entire thing drinking and being hungover. One or two nights is OK tho, Christmas and new years
awww, thank you friend
is beyond reproach