I was thinking about your comments how some posts that are like “I never touched ai and it’s so easy to not” can he hard because there are so many people who got sucked in, and I wanted to say that I so commend your journey away from it and that I personally never touched it for the very reason that I would struggle to let go. When I was in 8th grade I was wrestling with my homeschool English curriculum, and since my mom was busy I figured I’d just look at the answers in the back and reverse engineer how they got the answer. Before I knew it, within ten days I was dependent on the answers and not learning anything. So I weepingly confessed to my dad and he was so gentle and all I had to do was just do that part over again. But at that age I realized I never wanted to have that happen again because it’s so fast to get in, and so hard to get out❤️ so I’m cheering you on!!!
I was just minding my own business and suddenly got a warm and comforting hug from the other side of the world! 🥹Thank you for your kind, encouraging words, and for sharing that story! Aw, poor, honest little Grade Eight you!
We all have something we’ve slipped into easily that was much more difficult extricate ourselves from, and ai is one of mine. But thanks be to God, and the magnificent @valiantarcher for accountability, and the prayers and support of you lot, and the splendid gifmakers who supply me with the looping likeness of Miranda Otto’s performance as Eowyn, and other, more rewarding things to do, and everyone who has discussed the Cyprian and Jane project when I am in a moment of “I want to brainstorm a story but not just from my own head” - with all that, the temptation is gradually getting easier to resist, and less frequent. Some moments are weak, but it doesn’t have the same hold over me it had two months ago, and much, much less than it had after the New Year.
Thanks again! I’m not so arrogant as to think I don’t need to be vigilant. I may fall again, and have to stand up and keep going and not let the shame take me. But I pray that stumble never comes, all the same.
Love ya!
