Dark: thanks for that analogy…
Makes perfect sense …
A sponsor I had from the past once mentioned to me:
“ there is nothing We can do, unfortunately about the thoughts of gambling coming into our brain, but what matters is if we choose to act on those thoughts or not”
The good days, that we have, are fairly easy to avoid the addiction, or at least I find that, I am busy with work or that I have positive thoughts or there is a movie I want to watch or indulge in one of my constructive hobbies…
The bad days are a huge trigger…
But!
The past shows me that if I give in to my addiction…..
I will end up feeling worse later because
I’ve lost my money (yet again!!)
So I guess what I’m saying is, when we have the bad days, try and be positive, and tomorrow or the next day is usually a better day …and then we let the “storm “ pass us by…
Without giving in(makes me feel
Worse)