I’m in the trenches, dug in for the battle. Day 2. This sucks. Day 3 & 4 are bearing down. And I do mean bear. I’ve only dosed Kratom 3x yesterday @7grams each. And used only 2mg of sub today and no Kratom. I can feel it coming on strong. I just keep thinking of Maximus in Gladiator “when we are facing death, all one can do is smile back”. I know I can’t die from this so I just have to laugh at the pain and mental BS. Because it isn’t real. I’ve stepped foot on every continent sober, swam in every ocean sober. Visited 65 countries sober, learned to fly a damn airplane sober, swam with great white sharks sober, climbed and skied 10 14ers sober, been to over 200 concerts, well maybe not sober. Heck I even ran a half marathon in withdrawal for charity. Pain is temporary, eventually something else will take its place. If I quit however, that failure will last forever. Just wanted to check in and leave my mark to remind myself of this. Hope all are well. The key to victory is visualizing yourself taking the steps to get there.