I quit drinking 39 days ago. It was an intense change, and I've gotten mostly nothing but support from friends and family. It hasn't been very hard, though. I've found the transition has been relatively smooth. It's given me time to focus on writing for NaNoWriMo, working out and traveling around China a bit more.

I had a break through in meditation yesterday. Much of it is thanks to a well known Buddhist named Alan Watts. He taught me (through recorded lectures) that human thinking is linear, but the Universe is not. God is not linear, yet Christians, Jews and Muslims try to enforce these linear rules, like the "proof" of history books or the "End of Days". Waves are not linear. If anything, they're more of a circle, swaying out from focused forces.

Once I accepted that my thinking about time is linear and an illusion, I was willing to accept that I didn't "realize" this information or even discover it. That is also utilizing linear thinking to explain how I came to acquire this information. Instead, I accepted that I always knew this. I simply focused my mental forces, much like the tide.

I have a little over 32,000 words in NaNoWriMo, so I should be able to finish. But if I don't, I won't mind. The novel will be complete, regardless of the time frame.

P.S. I've started a new series of collaborations with ~jmonahan and *MBryn called "Tales By the Fire". I'm not sure how it's a collaboration, as we're all writing our own pieces and submitting them to our own accounts. So expect something from that, soon. The first story by ~jmonahan is finished. It's called Tall Tales: Good News Gus. Check it out, if you've got extra time. But just remember that time is an illusion!