Reminds me of a true story:

There was an old-time Rosh Yeshiva in Ponovez Yeshiva, Reb Dovid Povarsky zt"l (father of Reb Berel Povarsky Shlit"a). He was a big tzaddik and a big matmid. He had a very laid back personality. Like when he said a shiur or a shmuz, he would speak in a monotone without any emotion at all. Once a bochur came to him seeking for some chizzuk. "Rebby, what should I do? I have no cheshek to learn", said the bochur. And Reb Dovid replied - in a monotone, as usual: "Ich - leren - shoin - zibtzig - yohr - ohn - cheshek." (I'm learning already seventy years without emotion.)

I'm sur Reb Dovid never heard of the expression "Keep on trucking". But he did it for seventy years straight.

Emotion shmotion - KOT behatzlacha!

MT

OK I'll try this....
Woodford's way too serious
Just Keep on Trucking!

WOW! you're amazing!! keep on trucking!!

and like 'Think Good' said:
Think wrote on 18 Nov 2012 08:45:

Woodford is the official drink of GYE.
Why?
Why ask why?
Besides, it's hard to explain without R' Bards around.
Those who were on the forum for a couple of years understand it somewhat better.
welcome to gye.
keep on trucking.

WELCOME BROADLIFE!

we wish you much Harchavat hachaim. Please don't fall, I just did after 60 days, and it totaly sucked

as we say KEEP ON TRUCKING (don't look back) (like lots unfortuonate wife, that was one salty tale...)
you know Dov,
i am finding the more i try to keep it simple with Hashem just doin' what gotta be done, God starts dumping love and happiness on me (i'm grinning as I write these words), the trick is to not get off track beacuase of all the extra love and happiness and think that WHOA! I'VE ARRIVED!

_{just keep davening good learining good doin' shmirat eynayim good ... Lo alecha hamlacha ligmor}

Hi there C"O,

I can see you're a good man, and you deserve a good life. Go for it!
With a little effort - one day at a time - you will be able be"H to look back with satisfaction on what you accomplished. So join us GYE'ers and let's all keep on trucking - full speed ahead. No looking back. Start fresh today!

Hatzlacha

MT

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when the going gets tough
the tough get digging up old threads
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Keep on trucking Kevin. I guess just after a long streek, when we feel safe, something happens, a problem, a challenge, it just makes us smaller so we don't grow too tall, beyond the clouds. It's hard to start again, hard to cry to Hashem and hard to admit that we are helpless. That's a good start and you made the start.

One day at a time.

Gut chodesh to you brother!!!

-Michael

Wow 74 days! Bitchu BaHashem adei a"d. Keep up the good work - a day at a time. Always pretend it's your first day and your only day, and give it all you got. Daven to Hashem every single day to help you remain sober. Avoid all triggering sights and thoughts to the best of your ability. And just "keep on trucking!"

Hatzlacha

MT

keep on trucking!!!

B"H the Yomim Tovim were nice by me. Although it was not as "derhoiben" (spiritually uplifting) as I would have liked them to be, but be'zrat Hashem I managed to keep on trucking by keeping up my commitment to avoid all lustful histaklus and to 'try' and avoid all lustful machshovos. Daily shiurim commitments also helped me keep busy. Daily renewal of commitment, and daily accounting, and daily talks with the Boss helped keep me afloat B"H.

The highlight of my Yom Tov was when I met a GYE chaver in person (for the first time - after extended chavrusa-shaft via phone). I'm not sure whether he wants his (GYE) name divulged, but I'll share one thing I shared with him: In the back of sefer Shaarei Teshuva by Rabeinu Yona there is a section called Yesod Hateshuva. It is only 2-3 pages long, but it contains a beautiful approach that may be helpful (for some people) in breaking this habit. For a while now, I read it every day (bl"n) carefully and follow all instructions. I find it works wonders for me. If you have no problem with mixing Mussar and recovery (as many seem to have), then maybe you ought to check it out.

And finally - I would like to share an insight that occurred to me today. I received over Yom Tov an unsolicited email where the sender has a nice sounding female name, and 'her' short message was that she is my secret admirer and she is getting very excited at the 'cool' idea of setting up a date with me...

My immediate response was to delete the email without even opening it (I read the contents in the preview pane). We all understand that the female name probably belongs to a wacko who is trying to hack my computer and/or plant some malicious virus on my PC.

But then I realized: And how about all the shmutz out there? Why do we chase it as if it were some sweet stuff, while in reality it is a wacko trying to hack your soul and plant a malicious virus in your brain?

May Hashem protect us from all evil.

Ah gezinteh vinter

MT

Hi!

Just dropping in.

I say it is a good sign if YOU notice that your daughter doesn't sleep much. When each of our children were born I thought, "Wow, they're sleeping through the night already!" and my wife said, "NO THEY'RE NOT!"

Keep on trucking,

--Elyah

Keep on trucking Ash. Sounds like you're heading in the right direction and are making real progress. Are you still attending meetings regularly?
Gmar Chasima Tova

From the rebbe reb b:

Hello zemiros

Im sure you have been scratching your head wondering ehere in the world I am

Well maybe I shud be a little humble and think that maybe im not missed

Well I do owe a bit of explaining

HERE GOES

Bederech she-adam rotzeh laylech bo molichin oso

I have for years struggle with the poison the death pill known as internet addiction

The follies and fables of my rises and falls are well documented in bardichevs battle and in many other threads of the forum

Enough cannot be said of the wonderful forum the goodness it provides the help the comeraderie

It was my rescue parachute from living a life I couldn’t stand

A life for self torment

I found many like minded fine wonderful people there

I made great strides

I was somewhat of a fake folk hero

I changed my habits

BUT!!

I didn’t change

About a year ago after 2 and a half years on the forum

After speaking to and meeting so many of the chaveirim here

After posting over 5000 posts ( not counting the ones that were removed HEH HEH..)

After giving and receiving so much chizzuk

After joining the Yiddish forum

After becoming a moderator

Through a sequence of events

Through a sequence of gut-wrenching events

Through a sequence of gut-wrenching miraculous events

I was at a cross road where I was going to head with continuing on the forum or not

I will keep a good portion of this story to myself

It was best decided that I leave the forum

Zemmy,I am now in a place called Realville,KY

Yeah it’s a stones throw from bardstown

Actually im not in kenticky at all

The only thing I have from Kentucky is some good shnapps

In what I call realville

Is plain life

I deal with problems and with successes as they come

Im not a victim

Im no ones fault

Im not the result or the reaction of anyones deeds or misdeeds

Im not a subject

Im a person

I make decisions

Good and bad

I eat my words sometimes

I make people smile

I cry

I laugh

I dance

I drink woodford

No one is responsible for anyone of my weaknesses vices or seemingly addictive behaviors

I have become a better person

A better husband

A better father

A better son

A better Jew

No longer do I feel the urge to tell the world how I feel

Or what to feel

Or explain the addictive nature of the addictviling addictive addiction

Or the addiction to the addiction

Or the addiction to that

Im out

Im in the the school of hard knocks

Im a scrappy little foot soldier

That rolls with the punches and picks up from where he left off

I try to live each and every day to be meaningful and real

I had 3 major things happen to me in the past half year

One was citi field

Two was losing weight

Three was taking up daf yomi

Citi field was really a huge chizzuk

I haven’t been on the forum since December

Knowing our chevra im sure it was looked at with a bit disdain

But to me it was a huge chizzuk

Losing weight was a result of a exercise and diet regimen

I learned in realville that we are in control of everything we do

No we are not guaranteed results

But the chances of losing weight is a lot greater when you do 1 hour exercise every day

Much greater than eating parve cheese curls and doctor pepper

The daf was a natural extension of the exercise

I said

Hey u can do the exercise

You can do the daf

I was sitting in the metlife stadium during the siyum hashas

A buddy texted me

Hey di u wanna start the daf tomorrow

I said

Yup

And BH

We have been at it 52 days since kayn yirbu

Ok where do we go from here?

Lessons learned

Addicts need addicts

We need one another just to see that we are not crazy

We can not stay at the healing addict level forever (dov my brither I don’t mean you)

We gotta face the world

We gotta face the daemons

It will be hard

But come clean to your spouse

She will be more supportive than u can imagine

Live life

Live life

Just keep plugging at it

There are no downfalls

There are no set becks

There are just opportunities to rise to a new level

Live life in realville

Don’t be prisoner to any so called addiction

Real or imagined

And don’t be chained to recovery either

It is erev yom kipper

There is no greater time than now

Take all the lessenons that we learnrd on the forum

And APPLY THEM!!!!

As dov taught us

The program works for those who work the program

U are not the prisoner of amyones jail

Only the shackles of our own imagined ones

Break free and rise like an eagle

Soer to greater heights that you have not even imagined

May you and all the chevra be gebentched witgh a gut gebentcheter yur

Only Simcha bracha and nachas

And if things are seemingly not going the way u imagined

Nu nu

Keep on trucking!!

Ony Simcha!!

You are no ones fault!!!

Gmar chssima tovah

hello. I experienced a bad fall last night. I was at a function where there were women but I think the main problem was my attitude. As soon as the yetzer started his nonsense I immeadiately had a feeling that the challenge is impossible and that I cant make it. Tonight the yetzer is trying to make me depressed about a certain situation that I find myself in and I know it so I just got to realise its from Hashem and keep on trucking and doing my best.