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New Years Resolution

After two decades, I am not quitting marijuana... I am completing a chapter.

This plant walked with me through survival...through silence. ... through seasons when numbing was the only language I knew.

It held space when I didn’t yet know how to hold myself. For that, I offer gratitude, not shame.

But growth has a way of asking harder questions. It asks us to let go not because something is evil, but because it has done its work.

What once soothed now softens my edges too much.... What once grounded me now keeps me tethered to an older version of myself.

So this New Year, I say goodbye with reverence..

I am burying a time capsule... memories, lessons, pain, laughter, coping, identity.... returning them to the earth that carried me while I learned how to stand. Fire will witness the release. Soil will hold the history. And I will walk forward lighter, clearer, and awake.

Spiritual growth isn’t about purity. Fuuuu'qu.. It’s about truth.

It’s about choosing presence over fog, breath over escape, courage over comfort.

I am not losing a plant.

I am meeting myself without it.

And that feels like the most honest resolution I’ve ever made.
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Notsimilarreally · 31-35, F
Lovely. I used to be an everyday smoker for a number of years and moved on from it too. I hope you are as happy or happier without it than you were with it
Punxi · F
@Notsimilarreally Thank you...for support and inspiration. 🩷
Notsimilarreally · 31-35, F
@Punxi yup, it's good stuff, but it's also good not to need it and to be a more sober version of self.
Punxi · F
@Notsimilarreally I agree. Just woke up a few days ago and realized that id...sorta...moved on. 🤷🏻‍♀