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You're painting with a pretty broad brush there. What's so bad about being lazy? What's wrong with eating certain kinds of food? What are your thoughts on c

You're painting with a pretty broad brush there. What's so bad about being lazy? What's wrong with eating certain kinds of food? What are your thoughts on coffee/caffeine addiction?

aurareturn 3y ago
When I quit smoking weed, I reflected on the reasons why I decided to quit. Since HN is mostly pro-weed use, I will most likely get downvoted. But it doesn't matter. I was staunchly on the pro-weed side just a few weeks ago as well until I started reading the downsides and realized that most applied to me and I was an addict. I was a "responsible" user early on as well. Perhaps this post will help someone else here realize the same. Here they are: 1. Having a higher IQ 2. Actually getting REM sleep and feeling rested 3. Being able to remember stuff instead of forgetting everything. Even simple things like where I left the keys. 4. Not eating junk food and getting fat 5. Not looking extremely unattractive because I'm fat 6. Actually care about how I look 7. Being able to spend time with people who don't smoke weed. I lost touch with so many successful people because I only wanted to hang out with other stoners. 8. Having motivation and ambition again 9. Not revolving my life around getting high 10. Being a responsible son, friend, boyfriend, employee 11. Being able to work towards the life I actually want 12. Having better lung health 13. Not making my brain smaller 14. Saving money 15. Having dreams again. Both dreams when I'm asleep and dreams when I'm awake. 16. Not dealing with shady dealers (still illegal where I'm) 17. Not trying to convince sober friends to smoke with me and then having them politely decline my invitation 18. Not feeling like life is passing by while I'm high 19. Not having to hide the fact that I smoke weed from my parents, siblings 20. Not spending a huge amount of time on video games, pointless Youtube videos, and doom scrolling while I'm high 21. Not being antisocial 22. Not staying home by myself from 6pm - 2am getting high every evening 23. Not having to put "420 friendly" in my dating profile 24. Not putting off responsibilities 25. Not procrastinate to the max 26. Not having random paranoia while high 27. Not thinking about how I can get weed when I'm planning a trip 28. Not ignoring messages from old friends and family members because I'm more interested in getting high 29. Having a body that isn't built on junk food 30. Not spending an enormous amount of time researching strains and ways to smoke >What are your thoughts on coffee/caffeine addiction? I don't know. I don't have enough experience/thoughts on this.
- eep_social 3y ago
  I wish you success in developing your three week old belief into a resilient source of intrinsic motivation. I hope for you that it is a sustainable and healthy belief.
  - aurareturn 3y ago
    It isn't a three week old belief. It's a life long belief that was temporarily stopped by weed.
    - eep_social 3y ago
      My brother in christ, it’s clear in your writings in this thread that you have a ton of emotion about the choices you made a few weeks ago. Those feelings are not contained in a vacuum chamber. My comment was sincere. I expect you have a shit load of work in front of you to heal and I sincerely hope you are on a sustainable path.

You're painting with a pretty broad brush there. What's so bad about being lazy? What's wrong with eating certain kinds of food? What are your thoughts on coffee/caffeine addiction?

aurareturn 3y ago

When I quit smoking weed, I reflected on the reasons why I decided to quit. Since HN is mostly pro-weed use, I will most likely get downvoted. But it doesn't matter. I was staunchly on the pro-weed side just a few weeks ago as well until I started reading the downsides and realized that most applied to me and I was an addict. I was a "responsible" user early on as well. Perhaps this post will help someone else here realize the same. Here they are: 1. Having a higher IQ 2. Actually getting REM sleep and feeling rested 3. Being able to remember stuff instead of forgetting everything. Even simple things like where I left the keys. 4. Not eating junk food and getting fat 5. Not looking extremely unattractive because I'm fat 6. Actually care about how I look 7. Being able to spend time with people who don't smoke weed. I lost touch with so many successful people because I only wanted to hang out with other stoners. 8. Having motivation and ambition again 9. Not revolving my life around getting high 10. Being a responsible son, friend, boyfriend, employee 11. Being able to work towards the life I actually want 12. Having better lung health 13. Not making my brain smaller 14. Saving money 15. Having dreams again. Both dreams when I'm asleep and dreams when I'm awake. 16. Not dealing with shady dealers (still illegal where I'm) 17. Not trying to convince sober friends to smoke with me and then having them politely decline my invitation 18. Not feeling like life is passing by while I'm high 19. Not having to hide the fact that I smoke weed from my parents, siblings 20. Not spending a huge amount of time on video games, pointless Youtube videos, and doom scrolling while I'm high 21. Not being antisocial 22. Not staying home by myself from 6pm - 2am getting high every evening 23. Not having to put "420 friendly" in my dating profile 24. Not putting off responsibilities 25. Not procrastinate to the max 26. Not having random paranoia while high 27. Not thinking about how I can get weed when I'm planning a trip 28. Not ignoring messages from old friends and family members because I'm more interested in getting high 29. Having a body that isn't built on junk food 30. Not spending an enormous amount of time researching strains and ways to smoke >What are your thoughts on coffee/caffeine addiction? I don't know. I don't have enough experience/thoughts on this.

eep_social 3y ago
I wish you success in developing your three week old belief into a resilient source of intrinsic motivation. I hope for you that it is a sustainable and healthy belief.
- aurareturn 3y ago
  It isn't a three week old belief. It's a life long belief that was temporarily stopped by weed.
  - eep_social 3y ago
    My brother in christ, it’s clear in your writings in this thread that you have a ton of emotion about the choices you made a few weeks ago. Those feelings are not contained in a vacuum chamber. My comment was sincere. I expect you have a shit load of work in front of you to heal and I sincerely hope you are on a sustainable path.