Overcoming Temptations: Finding Healthier Choices 🌟

I'm not— I don't ever— the enemy is not other people. The enemy is Satan, sin, you know, lust. That's the enemy. But, you know, but in my old life, I would want to sexually objectify pretty much every woman, every woman I could. So lady walks in front of me at the grocery store, and I, you know, I noticed that she has a low-cut shirt, and I noticed that, and I, and I don't bounce away for a second. Well, that's in that moment, I didn't choose the healthiest option, which would be like, you know what, I don't— that doesn't need to be in front. I don't need to be looking at that, so let me bounce away. Um, the healthiest thing, we immediately bounce away and just like, I don't need to— I don't need to look at that. But even if I look for a second before bouncing away, in my old life, that would quickly turn into this landslide, this mudslide of like, well, I did that, I might as well keep looking, I might as well start thinking about it. I might as well see if I can talk to her. I might as well, might as well, might as well, you know, see where that's going, right? And it literally, in my addiction, it felt like it was just this automatic mudslide, like I'm sliding down this hill and I can't stop it. In recovery, even if I make that unhealthy choice in that moment, I know that that's not the end of it. I can, I can put a stop to it. There's an off-ramp off the freeway, you know. There, it's not a mudslide, it's a walk. So at any point I can choose to stop walking down that path.