be the monolith

when you quit a thing, all the other things that you used to do that involved the quitted thing must be relearned or abandoned. In my experience, I have found that, more or less, that this process takes one full year.

There used to be plenty of years laying around so I wasn't bothered so much. But not anymore. Now I would like to find a way to accelerate this process, as a whole year is too much time to spend quitting anything.

So I turned, as I always do in times of crisis, to astrology. However, there isn't much in the way of praxis-based solutions on this subject. There are only warnings and omens and soft prophecies. Which I fully love, for sure. But what I'm after here is a way to collapse the withdrawal phase to a few short weeks. Philosophy quells somewhat the panic; either by confirming that there is utterly no hope to existence anyway, or by making me so confused that i forget about the problem i was originally attempting to alleviate. But again, I need to utterly extinguish all longings and temptations.

So I realized that I could look to no outside agency. It's up to me. So I came up with an idea called:

Temporary Psychic/Organic Transference, aka: T-POT
Basically what this involves is the complete transfer of all mental, psychic, and motor control to a trusted, trained, expert proxy. The timeline for control return obviously is agreed upon prior to the transaction. I'm not sure how much this would cost. It works like this, I think: Using some sort of transfer architecture/technology (like that saliva/hydro sucky thing that dentists use to suck the spit out of your mouth) a trained professional would connect the two parties -- the patient and the proxy -- and, like osmosis i guess, the patient's 'life control system' would be vaccuumed out of their body/brain and stored in optimal conditions (say like a sanitized mason jar in a cool place) for its return. Then the proxy's 'will' would be 'uploaded' into the patients emptied compartments. The proxy then would assume full and complete control over the patient, assuming completely all stored knowledge (memory, personality, ticks, etc) but would retain autonomous decision-making power over the host. The host would have monitoring capabilities, but no ability to at all influence the proxy's piloting of their body.I think that the proxy would not be able to control themselves at the same time they are controlling a patient, so their body would have to be stored and supplied with nutrients and evacuation systems pending the return of themselves to themselves.

So, now that I've been able to surrender myself to another person totally, they get to go through all the shit I don't want to. And because they don't have the same issue that I'm enduring (of course, a screening process would be neccessary to ensure that this is true. I can forsee some complications here.) and because they aren't emotionally or psychologically attached like I would be, they can manage to do all the usual things I would do during my day, but without the anxiety, pressure and pain I experience due to all the associated, vestigial issues surrounding the quit. For instance: I quit smoking, but can't seem to shake the need for a cigarette when I drink. I sure don't want to have to stop drinking just because I quit smoking. So, with my proxy, they could take my body out to the bar, have drinks and laugh it up (totally just like my personality, no one would ever know that I was actually in stasis in a mason jar somewhere) and everything and never feel the need for a smoke! I believe that this could work for almost anything. For example, if you broke up with someone and you see them all the time because you have common friends and they won't stop hanging around your spots, so why should you right? Well, sign up for T-Pot for a month or so and you can still do all those things, but via your proxy. So you never feel any of the usual breakup pains or awkwardness. You're able to acclimatize yourself, via the proxy, to this new dynamic and then when your 'life system control' is returned to you, everything is totally no problem. I mean there are tons of applications.

shit, more later...doorbell

And even once people become comfortable with the process and it actually works reliably, you'd even use it to like, zone out for a day. Like a spa, but even better because someone can do the workout for you. Unless you like working out. Even so, everybody's got their own particular fence to whitewash.

Challenge To Myself: Determine what possible negative side-effects, collateral damages, possible malfunctions, existential crises, quantum impossiblities etc... may occur.