7.2 Void, the void, the beautiful void!
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Imagine having a cold sore on your face, so you go to the pharmacist and he gives you a free ointment to try. You put the ointment on and it disappears immediately. A week later it reappears, so you go back to the pharmacist and ask if they have any more ointment. The pharmacist says โSure; keep the tube, you might need it later.โ
You apply the ointment and hey presto, the sore disappears once again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful, with the interval getting shorter and shorter. Eventually, the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful, and itโs returning every half hour. You know the ointment will remove it temporarily, but youโre very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor and they canโt cure it, so you try other things but nothing helps apart from the ointment.
By now youโre completely dependent on the ointment, never going out without ensuring that you have a tube with you. If you go abroad, you make sure you take several tubes with you. In addition to your worries about your health, the pharmacist is charging you a hundred dollars a tube. You have no choice but to pay up.
You stumble across an article discussing this and find out it isnโt just happening to you, many people are suffering from the same problem. In fact, the medical community has discovered that the ointment doesnโt actually cure the sore, and instead only takes it beneath the surface of the skin. Itโs the ointment that caused the sore to grow, so all you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment and itโll disappear in due course.
Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower to not use the ointment? If you didnโt believe the article there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realised the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go. Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldnโt! You had an awful problem which you thought was incurable but now youโve found the solution. Even if it took a year for the sore to go away, each day as it improved youโd think about how marvellous you felt. This is the magic of quitting ๐๐๐๐.
The sore isnโt the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on two-dimensional images, feelings of infringement on entitlement, and despising the people who caught you or even worse, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.
The sore makes us close our minds to all these things โ itโs that panic feeling of wanting a fix. Non-users donโt suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer is fear, the greatest gain being rid of that fear. Itโs caused by your first session, further strengthened and caused by each subsequent one.
Some users are โhappyโ, blinded by their cunning little monsters and so go through this same nightmare, putting up phony arguments to try and justify their stupidity.
Itโs so nice to be free!