It's OK To Fall Down

Babies; what odd creatures! They have ludicrously disproportionate heads, awful smells, a sleep cycle of an alcoholic, and incessant noise-making capabilities. They are handicapped in more ways than one, but primarily it is the inability to walk that holds them back the most.

They'll try to walk. Tottering around for a brief moment the baby is seemingly successful, but then it comes crashing down. The inability to walk parallels the inability to quit porn.

The newborn tries over and over again to contest the holds of gravity, and time after time the child will fall. If the baby tries the same exact thing over and over again, would it not seem inevitable that falling will occur? In the same way a porn addict will try repeatedly to quit. They vow "Ok this is the last time I'm watching porn", and get strict with themselves, for awhile. But the addiction drags them down sooner or later, and the cycle repeats. If one does the same thing over and over again in the same manner every time, won't the same result happen?

Try new things and get creative with solutions. But if you relapse/ fall down, get up, dust yourself off, and try again in a slightly different way. Also just like the inability to walk holds a baby back from traveling places, so too does porn addiction severely limit ones potential.

I was on absolute fire for awhile: over 150 days of no PMO, it was awesome. And during those 150 days I managed to score in the top 2% in my organic chemistry class! Organic freaking chemistry AHHH!!! My brain was a lean mean problem solving machine. But slowly I began to overlook all the awesome benefits NoFap brought, I grew complacent, and I exercised less and less. I relapsed once, twice, and more times than I can remember since then. But eventually I got up, and tried again.

To wrap things up, don't get too down on yourself for relapsing/ falling down, it's part of the learning process. Get back up. Imagine a baby that fell down a few times trying to walk. What if this kid thought "This is impossible, crawling isn't that bad anyways, screw walking"? What if he/she never tried to walk again?



I may have rambled, baby metaphors aside I hope this story helps someone.