I remember heavy summer evenings when the tired sun would sink into the shadows of the horizon. When the last remnants of day would meet to mingle with the evening for a few moments before parting to say goodbye. The stars would begin to appear in the lavender twilight that gently gave way to the deep purple of the night. Laughter and voices of my parents and neighbors chatting mixed with the sounds of crickets carried through the air on a hot evening breeze; as the other children on the block and I played just out of reach of their shadows.
Everybody likes happy articles that make us feel good. This isn’t one of them. This one bypasses the part of you that wants to escape, and approaches the subliminal, the mature part that understands that there is no escape. This is the part that wants so badly to be free from all of this, the part that wants to develop that great passion that creates divergence, the divergence that approaches creativity, which in turn approaches eternity.
Quitting smoking is an admirable goal. But you can be sure of running into some problems along the way. It is difficult to be persistent when everything you try seems to fail. And many people who don’t realize immediate results from their efforts are easily swayed toward giving up. It doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s begin by emphasizing how important it is to your self-worth that you never allow yourself to give up fighting for something you know and believe to be right. |