Dallas Bragg says boredom and stagnation come from lacking a clear vision of who you want to become. He argues that imagining a life without substances, filled with peace and self-acceptance, generates enough daily excitement to break the cycle of repetitive thinking and escapist habits.
If you're finding yourself stagnant, if you're finding yourself bored, if you're finding yourself blah, meh, or just there going through the motions every day, it's because you don't have a compelling enough vision to move you forward. You don't have a vision that excites you, that propels you, that drives you. To be something better, someone better. You haven't envisioned what life could be like without the substance. You haven't viscerally felt the emotions of peace, contentment, satisfaction, gratitude, appreciation, love. Acceptance of self. Those are so foreign to you that it seems like just words on paper or something that woo-woo people say, and it probably even annoys you to hear because you haven't taken the time to really envision what that might feel like and what that might look like for you. You're so invested In the past, which is like 98% of our thoughts every day is the same thoughts we thought the day before, right? You're so invested in the past, you can't move forward. If you're stagnant, if you're getting the same results every day, it's because you're doing the same damn thing. And you don't have a clear and compelling vision of who you are without myth. And until you can grab onto that, That's what's going to pull you forward in these decision points. That's what's going to pull you forward in these days that seem dreary and dull, in these times when you want to use because you want to escape, you want to feel some kind of joy, you want to feel something. That vision, if it's real enough and compelling enough, will give you enough excitement In your day that it weighs out using. Euphoric recall? Fuck that. Because you know the truth, and what you've tasted is too sweet to say no to.
