It's been six months since the last time I did it and I feel so much better. Don't get me wrong, there still are days that I want to do it. But most days I feel so much better without it.
My addiction had become a problem. I wasn't proud of it. I would try and hide it from others. It started out as something I was just checking out. I heard people talking about it and thought I would give it a try. I thought it was different, interesting. I had no idea how easy it would be to get hooked.
Before I knew it, I was doing it once a day and then two or three times. I really didn't think it was a problem. I thought I could quit any time. But then I tried to quit. Wow, I was shocked. That's when I discovered the power of the habit.
Answers to what I was addicted to and how I stopped are below the fold.
I tried to stop and failed. And tried again and failed. I don't know how many times I tried and failed. It's so hard to quit because my friends and colleagues are too often involved in it too.
But, it has been six months now and I am so happy to be rid of it. Most of the time now when I see it, I feel sick to my stomach. Oh, what was my addiction? The Drudge Report.
I went through all the rationalizations. There's the "Oh, we need to know what the other guys are talking about so we can defend ourselves." And the "If he gets that many hits, we could learn something from him." Or, the classic, "Once in a while he links to something that everyone else misses." Yes, I went through all these justifications and more.
But to these excuses, I just say NO! Drudge is trash. Drudge is maggot-infested cat vomit. Drudge is rotted, lactose-intolerant human scat. And I am so happy I stopped going to that site.
The key to ending my addiction was deleting the short cut. I would type it in the browser window at first but then that just became to inconvenient as I realized how much better off I was not going to his site.
So, how's your addiction?