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Kicking weed, hopefully for good
11 months ago
As of a few days ago I started on another break from weed, this time the feeling has been different for me.
This last year I had been on a break till summer (6 months long), when I decided I would give myself the chance to enjoy weed again and see how I felt about it. A few months later and I found myself reaching a point where I was getting both a bit frustrated at myself for how easy it became to use it, but at the same time, I also was finding it more and more dull to the point I wondered why I was even smoking up to start with aside just doing the bit.
I think its for the best, I've realized that it doesn't provide much for me anymore, I could be focusing on the already interesting stuff in my life that I had been neglecting and letting slide.
This is me grabbing the wheel and jerking it back into my own lane in a "Im done." way. Weed made it too easy to become complacent with a lot of things I normally would not be. Toxic work places and people, bad diet and mental health practices.. Those all were enough of a frustration motivator to want to make things change. Gotta have your own back and be able to cheer for yourself even in the rough times.
Will I miss weed? Maybe.. But its lustre has been tarnished and I hope it stays that way frankly. What I have missed more is being the dragon who marched to the beat of his own drum in this nutty world, doing his own thing and being there for the folks who matter <3
This last year I had been on a break till summer (6 months long), when I decided I would give myself the chance to enjoy weed again and see how I felt about it. A few months later and I found myself reaching a point where I was getting both a bit frustrated at myself for how easy it became to use it, but at the same time, I also was finding it more and more dull to the point I wondered why I was even smoking up to start with aside just doing the bit.
I think its for the best, I've realized that it doesn't provide much for me anymore, I could be focusing on the already interesting stuff in my life that I had been neglecting and letting slide.
This is me grabbing the wheel and jerking it back into my own lane in a "Im done." way. Weed made it too easy to become complacent with a lot of things I normally would not be. Toxic work places and people, bad diet and mental health practices.. Those all were enough of a frustration motivator to want to make things change. Gotta have your own back and be able to cheer for yourself even in the rough times.
Will I miss weed? Maybe.. But its lustre has been tarnished and I hope it stays that way frankly. What I have missed more is being the dragon who marched to the beat of his own drum in this nutty world, doing his own thing and being there for the folks who matter <3
Wishing you whatever it is you need to help you through this. ^.=.^
Thank you for the well wishes ^.=.^
Having smoked with my partner for the first time has been game changing, it's so much better when shared with people you care about to enhance your time together. Plus the recent studies coming out about how weed addiction is real, how it can negatively affect you long term, etc have helped convince me to cut waaaay back. I already have a video game addiction, don't need to start stacking them like debuffs lmao
A lot of the recent studies and even how my own experiences have lined up a lot with them has been enough to really make me take a hard look at it and see that its just been giving me less while taking away more and I just don't want that for myself anymore. I am super glad that I never got into weed when I was younger. I think trying it in my late 20s was already slippery enough haha.
TBH I can't say I'm not surprised by the recent studies. An addictive drug can be addictive? Inhaling burning-hot particles can cause health problems? You don't say,..... Seems like just a few years ago they were claiming weed would cure cancer? :P
The basics of smoking have been a understood given, I don't think that was ever in doubt. The bigger thing is the interactions it has with the individual based on their brain chemistry and other factors, which hasn't had that long of a time research wise cause of well, everything in and with society.