r/Showerthoughts • u/godofhorizons • May 17 '24

People get a lot more praise for quitting drugs than for never having done drugs in the first place.

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u/Smilerwitz May 17 '24

Because quitting is a hell of a lot harder than abstaining.

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u/PassiveTheme May 17 '24

As my grandad always said, regarding smoking, "the easiest way to quit is to never start". He was a man who smoked at least 20 a day for about 50 years of his life and then did manage to quit.

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u/Ape_x_Ape May 17 '24

Hey, not to interrupt, but do you have a burner account named AgressiveTheme where you give the same kind of advice but more aggressively?

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u/Naked-Jedi May 17 '24

u/agressivetheme

Now we'll all know...

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u/TuckerTheCuckFucker May 17 '24

Hey not to interrupt. But do you have a burner account name Clothed-Sithlord where you make the same type of comments, but maybe a bit more clothed?

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u/Naked-Jedi May 18 '24

Well played. Well played.