Various forms of abnegation

Cigarettes (I stopped the night of Amy’s birth, after 15 years of smoking mostly rollups, up to 20 a day.)
Cheese (A few months ago, after too many bad dreams and a tip from my friend Brett)
Alcohol (A few years ago. I stopped enjoying it, not sure I ever really did + couldn’t face a hangover when waking up with Amy or Gabes at 5.30 in the morning. I still occasionally partake in social situations like, er, last night.)
Drugs (ever since the kids arrived. Wasn’t really a conscious decision. I intend to return at least to hallucinogens one day.)
Meat (20 years and counting)
Television (about 6 months ago. I don’t miss it at all. I still watch a lot of films on dvd, but tv? Ugh.)
Newspapers (A year or so ago. I occasionally buy the Saturday Guardian, but the majority of news media, probably due to its frequency, strikes me as endemic pornography. The Observer appalls me with its aspirational crap, the others are barely worth mentioning.)
Radio. See above for my reaction to rolling news. If I’m around I’ll listen to the Archers, but that’s it.

I feel so much better for giving up these things. Less is very much more for me.

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Published:: 12.02.05 / 11am

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Gutta 15.02.05 / 9am

totally with you on the drugs n alcohol abstinance, for all the same reasons. still haven’t managed to quit the fags yet tho. would deffo give up on TV if it wasn’t for the rest of the family watching it. absolutely no plans to give up meat tho!

11V 15.02.05 / 9am

Interesting – so you too are intending to go back on the hallucinogens? I loved smoking. Sigh, but giving up was prompted by statistics indicating higher instances of cot death even when people didn’t smoke in the house. For the last couple of years Amy and Gabes haven’t demanded to watch tv, but I guess at some point they’re going to. It’s just such a relief not to be bombarded with ads on ITV/C4 and programme trailers on the Beeb. So much of the kids content, too, is inane or avaricious. As to meat, can’t ever see myself going back to it, but then I was never a huge fan anyway.

Gutta 15.02.05 / 7pm

I luv my meat. And cheese. Everytime I ask a long-term veggie/vegan if there’s any meat product they miss, the answer is invarioubly ‘bacon’.

11V 15.02.05 / 8pm

With me it would be sausage in batter (mouth still waters when I see them in the chip shop) and haggis (family holidays were mostly spent in Scotland and I was too young to know quite what they were, just loved the spicy richness). I really love cheese, but I appreciate the reduction in bad dreams even more… No’ fair.

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