5 Reasons Why I'm Grateful For Porn Addiction
This is about to be a longer post, but if you have a few minutes, I promise it will be worth it ✊ I struggled with pxrn addiction for 10 years of my life. At the peak of it, I was jerking off to pxrn 5x per day on average. Looking back it now, after staying off pxrn for over a year at a time, abstaining from masturbation for months in a row, & even practicing total semen retention for weeks in a row, I never thought I’d say this—but I’m grateful for that struggle. See, addiction recovery is the most magnificent process a human being can go through & I get to witness it everyday. It's truly a gift, but it's packaging is so horrible, most people never get to realize that truth. My hope today is to transfer that perspective to you. Here are 5 reasons why addiction is a gift: #1: The comeback story effect. What is one common pattern in every single religious or classical story across every culture & time period? The hero’s journey towards salvation or personal growth. Would you watch a movie or read a book where the characters are happy from beginning to end, never having to face a single challenge? Of course not, it would be boring as f*ck! What is often the most powerful & emotional part of a good story? The comeback. The part where the hero finally wins after losing; where the hero finds a solution & breaks free from their problem. Those stories are simply manifestations of the human psyche. We can’t appreciate victory if we’ve never been defeated. We can’t appreciate freedom if we’ve never been stuck. As humans, growth & contribution are what make life worth living. Talking about contribution... #2: Purpose. I have never heard of someone breaking free from addiction without having the slightest desire of helping others break free afterwards. It’s like some kind of unwritten rule in the recovery community. The law of the second mountain states that there’s a limit to the amount of joy and fulfillment that people can experience by focusing only on themselves. The beauty of contribution is that you get to experience unlimited amounts of freedom & fulfillment since every victory you’ve contributed to feels like your victory. Also, those of you who’ve been in contact with my work for a while now know that sustainable recovery is impossible without some kind of contribution anyways. This means that the gift of contribution is inevitable in the process of addiction recovery. What a beautiful way to set it up if you were god.