Dear forum members,

These days the weather is pleasant but hot.  Now is the time when we get to appreciate OUR lifestyle as opposed to the outside world.  There are two things I would like to say regarding the fight we will undergo in the next few months and beyond.
1.) Develop a mindset that the way the world dresses these days is not only inappropriate, it's sub-human and unusually weird. 
A mashal to this is, imagine you're hiking in the woods and you smell a nice aroma.  You walk a little more and you find Joe.  He offers you a piece of meat and you ask what kind of meat it is.  Joe answers "it's leg."  And you say "leg of lamb?"  He replies "no, leg."  You ask again, "leg of veal?"  Joe says no, "you know leg, like the two legs you're standing on now. You gotta make sure to get these legs when they're young and juicy mmmm good!" 
Now, just as you would never ever have a piece of Joe's mountain meat because it is so far off and unusual, this is the same attitude we should have when developig an attitude to the mode of dress today.
2.) Will yourself to fight just this one time.  Take it one battle at a time and hopefuly you wil come through!

~TrueRatzon.

TrueRatzon, that example is incredibly good. Win or lose, it is good to have the right mindset... and seek to discipline oneself to it.

Dear Teshuvailaah and others,

Thanks for the compliment about the mashal I worte in yesterday's post.  The mashal comes from Rabbi Bentzion Shafier from theshmuz.com. 

For today's post I want to write the following.  Sometimes what we do has an effect of how we feel spiritually.  If a man lets loose and looks at what he wants this experience makes him a softer Jew overall and less motivated to serve Hashem.  It requires teshuva to fix but why put yourself in the hole.  The bottom line is that "redifas hataiva" chasing taiva has a hashpa'ah on a person.  So besides the actual aveira we accrue we are also morfing ourselves into people who seek out taiva.  Let us all be zoche to keep fighting and keep our resolve and may we only chase after good and wholesome things.

TrueRatzon. 

Deat forum members,

I have been awake since 6:10 AM and I had a long day.  The fact that as I am about to sleep I willed myself to post, is enough mesiras nefesh in shmiras einayim for the day.  Stay consistent and fight everyday.  Don't let a ingle day go by without adding strength to yourself in fighting this battle!

TrueRatzon