zerotohero
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Today I cried for the first time since my grandfather died two years ago. Full on tears. Not over something dramatic or tragic. Just… real human emotion.
I was texting with the girl I’m seeing. She opened up about some heavy stuff she’s going through. And I just felt everything hit me at once. The weight, the empathy, the connection. I used to think I was emotionally numb. Like some cold, emotionless robot. I thought that’s just who I was.
But it wasn’t me. It was porn. The years of numbing myself with constant stimulation, dopamine overload, escapism. NoFap hasn’t made me some superhuman god like Reddit claims. It just made me a person again.
I feel things now. I get angry. I get sad. I care. I listen. I actually connect.
This is the stuff nobody tells you. You don’t get magic powers. You just slowly become who you were supposed to be before porn hijacked your brain. Before you trained yourself to avoid every emotion by opening another tab.
Porn wrecks your psyche. Quietly. Day by day. NoFap is uncomfortable, messy, and full of withdrawal. But this moment, crying because I actually gave a damn, showed me something’s changing.
And for once, I’m glad.
I was texting with the girl I’m seeing. She opened up about some heavy stuff she’s going through. And I just felt everything hit me at once. The weight, the empathy, the connection. I used to think I was emotionally numb. Like some cold, emotionless robot. I thought that’s just who I was.
But it wasn’t me. It was porn. The years of numbing myself with constant stimulation, dopamine overload, escapism. NoFap hasn’t made me some superhuman god like Reddit claims. It just made me a person again.
I feel things now. I get angry. I get sad. I care. I listen. I actually connect.
This is the stuff nobody tells you. You don’t get magic powers. You just slowly become who you were supposed to be before porn hijacked your brain. Before you trained yourself to avoid every emotion by opening another tab.
Porn wrecks your psyche. Quietly. Day by day. NoFap is uncomfortable, messy, and full of withdrawal. But this moment, crying because I actually gave a damn, showed me something’s changing.
And for once, I’m glad.
