I turn 48 on July 1, and I've decided to make that the first day of my future life without cigarettes. The cost is too high—monetarily, physically, and spiritually. I cannot imagine a clean world with toxic-smoke-producing cigarettes accompanied by cancer of all kinds, emphysema, and a host of other ills. If I want my reality to truly reflect who I am inside, then cigarettes have to go!
Besides, all I'm really doing when I buy cigarettes—besides slowly killing myself—is perpetuating a greedy, corruption-ridden system that cares absolutely nothing about the consequences of its actions. It'd rather lie to, poison and kill us than help us improve our health, and thus our lives and the lives of our loved ones.
This year, 2011, is my year to "bloom," to finally create the reality I've always wanted, one without the 'wanton self-destruction' that has plagued nearly my entire adulthood—one where I can enable others to improve their lives and their outlook on life and the future. I have always been one to teach others, whether it was about the Bible, computers, exercise, what have you; I can see now that it's been my mission all my life to help others, and to help them help themselves. I've not really been in the right mind-space, however, to "bring it all together," until now. I have found 'my voice' at last, and it will be heard, if only through the pages of this blog.
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