This isn't a super, super-serious post, so please don't go crazy at me!
I've been quitting on and off for too long (mostly off recently, although back on now) and I've encountered people from most of the different support groups. However these groups differ, the one thing that is common to them (it seems to me) is their love of platitudinous repetition.
"We must love ourselves before the super-power can save us from the ourselves that we love..."
"Trying is the bean-can of hopeless endeavour..."
"Today is your slippery springboard into the cold water-tank of experience..."
"Drink is your cloak, throw back your hood and consider the mighty umbrella as an alternative..."
Ok, I made those up so as not to offend (pretty profound though, I think you'll agree) but they illustrate my point.
I can't
stand platitudes! They drive me absolutely mental! I think I might even have sobered up with a group rather than on my own if these things weren't tossed back and forth between group-members like hacky-sacks!
Rant over.
