Who Knew?Relinquishing Vices
It has been a week since I’ve given up soda and my body feels like The Worst. I’ve been to the doctor and I don’t have low blood sugar, and I’ve weaned myself off my addiction by now so it isn’t any kind of deprivation symptom. People have suggested that my baseline mood is “feeling depressed”, and I don’t notice it because I’m usually up on HFCS… I dunno.
I’ve tried to give up soda at various other times during and after my adolescence (most notably for my first eight weeks of college) and in all instances I started up again deliberately just so I could elevate my mood. I feel like starting up again right now, but the desire to not have the sensation of phosphoric acid slowly eating at my corporeal essence from the inside out is currently winning that battle.
