So the time has come for all good Catholics out there: Lent. Some might say that a good Catholic is one that prays all the time, reads the Bible, goes to mass regularly. I certainly wouldn't consider myself to be a very good Catholic, but this is my attempt at trying.
I've decided to combine these two things to create a new challenge I like to call...Fr.Ted's Lenten Challenge!
For those of you who don't know Fr. Ted, it's a television comedy based on the lives of three priests who live on the ficticious Craggy Island off the Irish Coast. In one episode, Fr. Ted is challenged be his arch-rival, Fr. Dick Byrne of Rugged Island to a "giving things up contest" of sorts. The episode shows each member of Craggy Island Parochial House giving up drinking, smoking and rollerblading for lent.
My challenge: Giving up drinking, smoking and rollerblading for Lent. Now, I must admit that I don't think a pair of rollerblades have graced my feet in a very, very long time BUT, who knows what might happen on a drinking binge.
Smoking isn't a major habit of mine, it just comes on when I drink, a chain reaction some might say.
The main thing is for the drinking to stop, and this will prevent the other two from getting in my life. Bear in mind I'm an Irish student at university, who had at least one night of so-called "binge drinking" almost every week for the last few years. Why might you ask am I doing this?
First of all, because I am starting to have awful hangovers recently, as they say prevention is better than cure. Of course alcohol is a factor, but being offered cigarettes when drunk does me absolutely no favours either. That gut-wrenching feeling of your stomach doing somersaults and losing all your concentration each day does absolutely nothing for anybody if one has targets/deadline, which leads me onto my next point.
The last two occasions in which I've drank have been great nights, but I've had to pay for these by waking up mid-afternoon and with absolutely no motivation, moping around the place feeling sorry for myself as well as constantly thinking, "why did I smoke last night?" It'll be interesting to see how much more I get done, how this affects my behaviour and most importantly for me do I have the stamina to actually do this?
If I can manage to last this entire period, it will be the longest I've lasted in about four or five years without alcohol. Let's see how this goes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqT4-SFTRaw
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