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by SnappieVouz

It was the 24th of march and I was smoking a cigaret. I came to the conclusion that nicotine is an useless drugs. Take sleeping pills, cocaine, marihuana… those drugs actually do something for you. They make you halucinate, they make you feel fantastic, they make you feel super relaxed. Not saying I use those drugs, obviously.
Nicotine doesn’t do anything, all it does is make you feel restless. If you only feel at peace if you smoke a cigaret, and otherwise you feel restless, then you can easily come to the conclusion that nicotine doesn’t make you relaxed, it makes you feel restless.
Its not about whats there, it’s about whats not there.

So I quited. Didn’t have that much of a hard time, my concentration was a little bit lacking but thats pretty much it.
I played some tennis yesterday and recorded the second episode voor Ying Yang. I hope people will like it as much as they liked the first episode, but I also think it’s hard to get better responses. The responses of episode 1 has been extremely good.

Tennis went well, but it’s not the best sport for my knee. In 20 years from now I walk with a cane (stick?) because my knee is messed up.
Unfortunately for my knee I am not going to quit sport at the age of 27 just because my knee says he is in pain, i love sport to much and since i picked it up again i feel better mentally.

I have mixed feelings about missing poker at the moment. I wonder if its worth it.
I do like poker, and I like playing it. But if every time i have losing weeks i feel miserable and stressed, it might not be a good game for me.
Stress is hurting yourself. A lot of things in life we don’t control and if you get emotional attached to those things you don’t control you are only hurting yourself, for absolutely nothing. You can’t control it, so you can’t do anything about it.

machiavelli talked about Fortuna and virtu. Its the idea of doing what you can to bend your own faith. There is only so little you can do, and it’s very stressful to believe you could have done more.

I don’t believe in faith, I do believe life happens to you and its about making a decision while stuff is happening.
So to take that back to poker. Not now, maybe in the future. At the moment I enjoy studying poker more then playing it and I can always study the game, nobody tells me I need to play.



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