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Livin’ on A prayer…

I gotta be honest here. Life is sucking pretty bad right now. There are many reasons, but collectively they stem from one: Being psychologically and physically addicted to smoking cigarettes. I’ve fucked up in a lot of different ways related to that. Going into detail on how ain’t gonna happen here. That is between Psycho-Momia and I. But I will say that every fucking day, I find a new way that I’ve hurt her and the girls by continuing to feed the addiction.

If you don’t think smoking is as bad as say, heroin, you are wrong. Not preaching, just venting, and organizing my thoughts here…

It may not kill you as quickly, and most people won’t literally kill for a smoke, but it hurts you and those you love just as much.

I cannot fix the past. I cannot right the wrongs I’ve done. I can’t even ask for forgiveness.

I can hope to not allow these things to happen in the future.

I’m angry. With the unnamed girl who literally stuck a lit cigarette in my mouth at 15. I’m angry with the adults around me who smoked like chimneys, allowing a deep grained perception that it was ok.

Mostly I’m angry with myself. For not staying quit when I did it 20 years ago, for being too “weak” to resist it, for lying to myself about it. For lying about it to the ones I love. For breaking hearts…

That’s enough for now. Losing control… and I don’t want to explain to the girls why I’m crying.

Currently playing in iTunes: Love Song by Tesla

Where is Smoke, is Fire

Smoking is bad. I’ve been a smoker for 25 years or so. I need to stop. I want to stop. I have to stop. Without going into details, Tattooed Dad very nearly became single because of it a couple of days ago.

I’ve picked a date of July 9th to become smokeless. It will be a rough ride, and I’m taking all of you with me. Help and support will be greatly appreciated. I’m using TrytoStop.org to guide me, and will hopefully be seeing a doc about other ways to help. Anyone have experience in this that wants to chime in, please do. I’ve already begun some of the steps…switching brands to one I don’t like, excluding places/times, etc.

How little things change…

When I was younger, I thought that we/I could change the world. How wrong was I?

15 years ago I wrote this. Near as I can tell, every single thing still applies.
Fuck. How do we get people to wake up and act cohesively?

The End

This is the end of our world
Life and time coming to a close
Armageddon on the horizon
“Civilization” on the brink
Overpopulation racism
Oh god I need a drink
Lullabies as we sing ourselves to sleep
Freedom fleeting as the moral minority
Imposes its twisted values upon us
Peace moves like stagnant waters
Electronic Images capture intelligence
Drive it to moronic bliss
Revolution Anarchism
Oh god try to think
Authority sends imagination away
While bureaucracy chokes us on red tape
Plastic people shown reality faked
Media overlords poison the truth
Filling the children’s future
With historical inaccuracies
Corrupt politicians preach
Disguised fascism
Oh god my sanity’s on the brink
My time
Our world
Winter has arrived
The End has come
Say Goodbye

MSA MAR41992