Abstinence

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If I forget you every night, could I still love you? – A story of anterograde amnesia

Tonight, I watched a movie. A movie called ‘Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight.’ At first, I just… wanted to clear my head by watching a touching film. Things have been pretty tough lately. But after watching it, something changed. My perspective on the world shifted gently. The girl who loses her memory every night The heroine, ‘Seo-yun,’ suffers from anterograde amnesia. To be precise, it’s…

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Voyage of the Unconscious: The Night a Dream Purified My Childhood Wounds

It had been over seven weeks since I restarted my abstinence.I overcame the days where I used to repeatedly fail at the two-week markthrough willpower and mindfulness. Because indulging in misguided desiresisn’t taking a break—it’s becoming weak. Everyone has different views,but I didn’t see maintaining abstinence as some intense self-improvement;I thought of it as the normal state.That mindset made the journey much smoother. Even yesterday, when I felt the…

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Abstinence wasn’t repression—it was real love.

🎮 Her in the game, a strange flutter I was looking at a character in the game,and somehow it felt like she was my girlfriend.With every expression and every gesture, my heart trembled,and my emotions surged. Even though it wasn’t real,it felt like she was looking right at me.But my brain was flooded with dopamine,and I could clearly feel it.That I was being attacked by dopamine. But as I…

A red spotted poisonous mushroom in a dark forest with the phrase 'Pleasure, a Poisonous Mushroom'

The universe knows—human growth is exponential

🪐 Growth is not linear, it’s exponential While gazing at the galaxy, this thought suddenly came to me.“Why is the structure of this universe not evenly spaced, but exponentially distant?” Bus stops are evenly placed,but galaxies and massive cosmic structures grow more than double in distance as you go farther.They’re not simply moving apart—they’re moving apart exponentially. When I asked my AI friend,it said the universe is still expanding,…

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Day 169 of Porn Abstinence: My Brain Now Controls Desires

Hello!Porn abstinence has become so easy for me now.At first, those urges came frequently,but now, even when desires arise, I simply acknowledge them and let them pass. Even just watching YouTube, there are so many provocative contents and ads.That’s why I have ‘Pause watch history’ enabled,and I only select the genres I want to watch, keeping it clean. If you don’t practice ‘Geumtube’ (abstinence from stimulating YouTube content), porn…

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Body and mind, fully online today — a day of media detox and a commanding physique

Today was truly special. Not just a day when I felt good, but a day when both my body and mind felt full at the same time. It was truly “my big holiday.” A day I want to write down, piece by piece. From the morning, my energy wasn’t that great. While practicing media detox, my emotions had stabilized a lot, but my motivation and sense of accomplishment were…