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  • Yeah, the key is getting over that reflex of going to the booze. It doesn’t last all that long, but it comes often and keeps trying to deceive me into thinking what I need is an easy quick fix. It’s getting easier the more I succeed. It feels great but I can’t let all my guards down. Not for a while… maybe forever.

    Day 4 is pretty much in the books!

    Thanks to you and everyone here!

  • Stop drinking @sh.itjust.works
    o0evillusion0o @sh.itjust.works

    I made it through Saturday… and you guys helped!

    The weekend is always a big trigger for my need to get smashed and I’m proud to say I made it through Friday and Saturday! Saturday was especially hard because I had the whole day to do whatever I want and that usually leads to getting fucked up. Instead I cleaned the house, I had a delicious bone broth on all afternoon in the slow cooker which I turned into an amazing vegetable soup (that I can actually remember eating!) I got active on some online communities, including this one and that was a big help. Since I left Facebook and company behind to join the fediverse I’ve been feeling even more isolated because it was the only contact I had with the few friends and family that live far away. But I’m getting more comfortable now and starting to be a part of a few good online communities on lemmy, Bluesky and Pixelfed! I’m feeling awesome this morning and I want to remember this feeling of not waking up hungover… even with a small sense of accomplishment. I went for a little hike last n

    Stop drinking @sh.itjust.works
    o0evillusion0o @sh.itjust.works

    Damn… I’m all alone in here.

    Welp, I’m posting anyway because I need something to do instead of drinking. The urge is real and usually on a Saturday I’d just give in and slip into IPA oblivion. But I’ve made a decision and I need to stick with it. Not for anybody else… there is no one else in my life. The booze is to blame for a lot of friends and lovers lost and I’m lonely now, even if I am an introvert who enjoys being alone a lot of the time. I also need some human contact. Right now my massage therapist is the closest I’ve got to a friend… but I pay her so it doesn’t count.

    I need to keep reminding myself, as I furiously gulp down coffee and kombucha, that the few hours of bliss I might achieve with getting wasted are just not worth it. It’s the same old thing every time and it’s quite pathetic. The first 3 hours are good. I trip out on music, I can be productive and creative… then it all goes to shit. The music is too loud for an apartment, I have a tendency to send texts and post things online that eithe

  • I think it’s a legitimate, socio-conscious question but in the end, the profits end up in America and also, these mega corps destroy more local and ethical producers. It may in fact result in job losses but you have to see the big picture and long term effects. As an example, I used to live in a city where the main industry was a foundry that poisoned the population with —among other poisons— arsenic. They are still active. The province has bent the rules of safe emissions guidelines to keep them in the community and giving as an excuse that the company would close down and around 300 workers would lose their jobs. So it’s ok to give cancer to the citizens in the name of profits and the jobs of 300 people?? It doesn’t make sense to me. Sure it would suck for a while for these workers until they found something else and maybe the new job wouldn’t pay as much but you either have convictions or you don’t. Sacrificing the health of a whole city for the sake of a few jobs and a lot of profit is just wrong.

    So sacrificing your convictions of buying Canadian —which in the long run will benefit the whole country and hurt the evil corporations— is wrong as well, as far I’m concerned.