WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One more time:

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS OFFICIAL! I AM GOING TO ISRAEL FOR YESHIVA YAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYYAYAYA!

It'l be nice meeting up with some old GYE friends (OINK- donuts!) and some new ones!

We all know (please don't get into a philosophical discussion) that not just (keyword-just) Torah will help but hey it will certainly supplement recovery!

I am so excited! First long term stay in Yeshiva!

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is great news!!!

I am so excited for you.

It should be with tremendous success and hatzlachah!!

I echo the WWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU!!!
will even understand if you don't post so much.
you'll be too busy shtaiging!!!

Sometimes i get really frustrated. It could be little things like such as my email doesnt work. Then i get frustrated and angry. I want to yell and scream. Perhaps i want to lust. URGGGGGGGG!

But then i remember how small it is. How silly it is! Its nothing. It means nothing. . No need to stress. Just take a nice deep breath. Say everything will be ok and move on with my live. Nice and calm. Nice and calm. Life is good!

ahhhh, feel better already

Awesome!!

Technology that doesn't do what it's supposed to is my number one set off!! it is the most frustrating thing!!

Nothing silly about it!!! :mad:

But life is still good!!

KOMT buddy!!!

Awesome news, DMS1234567898765432123!!!!!!

May you have a wonderful year full of growth.

(The Yeshiva thing, not the frustrating email thing)

gevaldig may your stay be full of hatzlacha and syatah dishmayah!!

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Its so interesting how Kavod works. Usually i yearn for it and ask myself how can i get Kavod! But then when i don't yearn for it, it really comes! This happened today and it has happened many times before. The Gemara is absolutely right! Where is it again? I am sure someone knows!

Mishnah in Avos.

I'm always ready to give you kavod

Dear GYE,

It seems that we have been all coerced into showing how many days we have been clean ("current streak" above your avatar). B"H that is not my current streak.

To be honest, and i know people like the 90 day chart, for me it didnt work and it doesnt work. It doesnt help me to know how many days i have been clean. I try to go day by day (one day at a time). Even moment by moment (one now at a time) This means soley concentrating on that particular day. "The past is gone, and the future is not in our hands." (GYE Handbook, 7). I don't think over the past and i try to think about the future as less as i need so i can fully concentrate on right now.

For example, when i look at Baba Metzia, gosh its long. How will i ever finish that? The answer is that i don't need to worry about that today. Right now, i need to concentrate on one particular tosefos. Thats it. I don't have to keep counting pages! And soon enough after many mishnas, gemaras, rashis, tosefos and other meforshim, I will Bezras Hashem complete the masechta! But it all starts with this tosefos. If i don't finish this tosefos, i will never be able to complete Baba Metzia. Thats how important it is!

So to with recovery. We can only be clean 90 days, 330 days, 6857 days whatever if we are clean in this day, at this moment. And can i do anything about all those other days: NO! I can only affect today! Thats it! Surely whatever happens today, affects tomorrow, yea yea, and thats exactly my point! We cant DO anything tomorrow. We can only do today.

So we should also ask: what can i do today for recovery? What steps can i take to ensure recovery today. Furthermore cant i be clean today? Just for today. We will re-evaluate tomorrow.

See? I am not expecting myself to be clean forever. Only today! I am only thinking about today.

That being said, if anyone knows how i can remove that from above my avatar, please let me know!

Have a great day!

when you go to your record in the 90 day chart theres a link to click "Don't Display Streak on Forum". It used to be a checkbox and was off by default. Now it looks like it got turned on for everyone by default.

If that's the way the Guards want it, they have every right, but it should be told to people beforehand...with the tools as to how to prevent it or change it.

there are many who don't update their charts at all, and now it says publicly that they have "0 days." What can be gained from that?

Thanks again

b'hatzlachah

I agree wholeheartedly with the above sentiments.

When I first saw the feature in other people profiles I had a thought of "This could be good accountability", but the next thought was "why do I want to have the number of days right in front of my eyes every time I log onto GYE? Numbers aren't important, I need to stay clean today no matter what my numbers are! Having them there is just dangerous for me, giving me an opportunity to focus on the days and either tell myself that I'm clean long enough, nothing will happen if I fall, or that I'm not clean that long anyway so I could fall and I'm not gonna mess up much."

I personally opted out, if anybody wants to know how long I'm clean they are free to ask me and I will look it up for them, but I certainly do not want it to be my focus!