Watch the stars

As Jon Bellion sings: "All we wanna know, is where the stars came from, but do we ever stop, ever stop to watch them shine? Or are we staring with, staring with ungrateful eyes?"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, a 18th-19th century philosopher, had this idea that a human being truly fulfills their being when they are captivated by wonder. He expresses this by posing a question. Have you ever experienced that out-of-body-ish experience where you're totally captivated by whatever is at hand? Like TOTALLY captivated? Listening to an amazing song, or looking at an amazing piece of art? That mode of wonder he expresses as the way to live. He suggests we totally devote ourselves to whatever we want, and THAT is what will make us great. He says he can't explicitly define it because it is literally OUTSIDE THE COMPREHENSION OF LANGUAGE.

What we're doing with NoFap is just this. It's unreasonable to an extent. Why would we not just maximize our own pleasure whenever we can? What's wrong with porn? It's just people having sex. Everyone masturbates. We've all heard these lies.

That state of mind we're all chasing after is the one of being like a child, innocent, wonder-filled, pure. We want this because we know it's better than the brain-fog inducing, cloudy-minded, depressing, and sometimes just plain sad world of PMO.

The three questions in my signature help me with this. I try to ask myself daily whether I'm doing what I want to do, with those people I care most about, where I love most. Hell, I'm bad at it. I'm only a couple days after yet another reset to porn. We use porn and PMO as an escape.

Sometimes, it's as simple as just don't. Just don't. Do something else. Cold showers, step outside, 20 pushups, call your mom, call your brother, talk to your family, call your dad, do SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE PMO'ING WILL NOT FIX YOUR PROBLEMS. You know who will?

YOU WILL. You know why?

Cause you're fucking amazing for admitting you have a problem and trying your damn best to leave it behind, because that's just not what you want.

Stay fucking mighty.

~pornnomore18