Originally Posted by lindalove

This brings me back to the 'idle rhetoric' part. Yes, heroin's even more nasty to kick, but you can just as well say "Stopping the ball here, and not shooting up ever again is just a decision to follow through with." And we both know that it's not that easy. I'm not saying tardiness is on the same level as heroin. It's not. But it's the same concept, as are alot of the things people whine about.

Saying that "this one is hard, but this one isn't," to me is an arbitrary line. That's like trying to separate in the color spectrum where purple ends and blue begins.

It's still a big lifestyle change, and I personally have had a hard time with it when I've put my mind to it, for instance. Belittling the effort necessary isn't exactly fair. Things are further complicated by the idea that some people might be able to stop buying cigarettes one day after a lifetime of smoking, yet cant seem to quit their habit of flying off the handle at the slightest issue, for example. Heck, maybe if I got diagnosed with cancer, I'd end up coping with it comparatively comfortably. Its different for everyone.

In the end though, what I mean to get at is that writing off a person with an issue like this as being generally inconsiderate or weak is not accurate, nor fair.