What would you do with 14,600+ hours?

#1

Imagine. I’m 30 years old. I learned to masturbate from a friend at the age of 11. I just rounded that to 20 years for number sake. 365days in a year x 20 years=7,300 Now 7,300 x 2 hours of Porn/PMO = 14,600HOURS!!!

14,600+ HOURS!

To be honest this is pretty accurate, or underestimate for my point of view. How about you guys? I challenge you to calculate How long you been going for and the amount of time spent. How much of your life have you wasted?

14,600 HOURS IS 608 DAYS AND 8 HOURS. ALMOST 2 YEARS! 2 YEARS!

On my game Guild wars 2, I have over 7,500 hours spent on it 312 days, and 12 hours. COMBINE BOTH OVER 3 YEARS +!

That’s a scary image huh? I’m not saying everyone give up their leisure time but 3 years of leisure time is too much. And we have people in our Barrack that are Karma level one that can’t take 10 minutes to press LIKE on 3 post to get there karma up.

You can get karma up in 3 very simple ways, LIKE A POST, START A POST, COMMENT ON A POST. Quite easy.

But, for me imaging the benefits of what 14,600+7,500= 22,100 hours you could’ve done/improved your life with.

If I worked out 22,100 hours, I could’ve been in the Expendables movie. Bigger than Arnold, 2 or 3 PhD Degrees. I would’ve had a girlfriend, wife and kids already. I would’ve have made enough money for a 2 story house and a good car and more!

I’m not complaining but, 22,100 working at a $8.50 rate will get you $187,000 without taxes. That’s the reality of porn addiction PMO. You spent $187,000 for a virtual stripper that doesn’t even touch you or care about you!!!

22,100 taken away from adequate sleep, workout time and study preparation. If I trained for 22,100 hours, to be honest, I would be an Olympian by now. I would’ve open my own company.

I want to use this as a wake up call for everyone. You may think that 30 minutes a day, quick fap means nothing. But, it adds up a lot over time. And it’s very costly. According to the math I just did it cost me over $100,000 a chance to be Valedictorian in high school, my livelihood and more. You guys reading this are better than me, and I expect better.

In college, I had tons of girls flock to me and my room, did I ever close the interaction, ie. get laid? NOT ONCE. I’m not saying nofap is to help you get laid. It’s here to change your life, but the consequences of PMO will lower your sex drive, self-esteem, time management skills, relationship with friends.

WAKE UP. If the consequences of PMO aren’t that strong of you to stop relapsing and clicking KIA. Then read my story or share it with other people. I don’t want to see any more people KIA from Water anymore, and I hope everyone will be at karma level 10 by next week.

PMO is BAD! Plain and Simple. I reflect on what I could’ve done, would’ve been. I was a graduate student and college and it went down hill. Might or might not be due to porn, but I was PMOing every day in college enough said. I did it every day, until Maybe 24 years old, even if it was for a quicky. I had a small break where I had long streaks. But, the damage was done physically, mentally, spiritually, and relationship wise.

I mean, my habits, mannerism, behavior and social interaction reflected me. I even heard people talking behind me back saying. “Is he Jacking off again in the shower?” They would say you know it. If I was ever confined too long in my room, they would joke if I was playing with myself. Of course I said no. Who would admit to that? I was/am embarrassed and ashamed of my actions and hiding it.

I lost a lot, but that war. In this war, we lose people, friends, respect, dignity, money, status, fame. That’s why I’m going so hard on myself and others to not binge or nofap. It’s so easy these days with UNLIMITED MOBILE DATA, on your phone. I mean perverts have easy access now. To go to an extreme, I will call you a pervert, if you do look at porn. I was even taunted as a pedophile once–that’s not a good thing, even if they were just teasing. Even if my friend’s were joking, that’s not a good label to have on your head, especially in public. It hurts you on the inside.

I’m making a commitment now, to commit the next 14,600 hours to better myself and others. This is my 4th nofap war. It won’t be my last.

I have tons of material I want to write about now, imagine how many books I can write over 14,600 times. I could’ve been a master novelist, amongst other things.

For those reading this, I want you guys to tell me:

What would you guys do with 14,600 hours? Be detailed, Imagine, Immerse yourself in it. Feel it come to life. Because, it’s here. This is Hour 1, 14,599 more hours to go.

“A MOMENT OF PLEASURE, LEADS TO A LIFE TIME OF SUFFERING” ~Sheng-yen Lu"

#3

I’m so glad I found out about nofap this early in my life. The moment I started fapping (12 year old me) I felt regret and wanted to stop this nasty stuff. Deep in me I felt it didn’t suit me. I found out about the nofap community probably a year after I started this habit.

My conscious mind developed a lot in this time and it’s still developing a lot, and I think my unconscious mind went trought a lot of developement, too.

I’m so glad, so thankfull that my parents grew me up as this independent/self-sufficient person.
They thaught me to be independent of words of other people, self-sufficient enough to live my life and to be able to think about my life by myself at this young age consciously (14).

I’m glad that I have this mindset, this mindset that is permanently developing itself.

This is my first war and it’s really enjoyable.
I knew how much I love nofap, but I get sucked into bad habits by this ugly, nasty, small part of mine.

This war taught me to think deeply about myself.
Why I get sucked into a bad habit, why I want to lose myself sometimes and how to avoid those things.

I don’t want to lose this war and thusfar I have iron willpower.

Willpower to do the things I love and live for.

I haven’t wasted that many hours on pmo, but I won’t wast any more in the future. On the things that I truely enjoy, and that fullfill me.

Stay strong y’all!

#4

Dude you’re 14 as well? Nice well I’m not there yet but I will on a couple months and I’m really lucky, just because the fact that every time I’d fap I needed to justify it and i did in secret and it hurt me. Badly. Especially during 7th grade I didn’t realize that pmo was a great source of my problems. I was always tired, never concentrated, I’d Make scenarios and it was bad. I even remember going to the bathroom just because i had the urge, and for me to just let it take control like that. Pmo took away a lot of my time but now I’ll do better. I got big dreams that are coming true very soon.

#5

Thank you very much NoFapBatman for this factual post. Posts like this are a great service to mankind and helps to save hundreds of lives. May you be healthy, wealthy and happy.

#6

Not saying you should masturbate , reading your post , it seems like you should deffinetly quit porn , atleast untill you can have a healther relationship with it (or prefferably none at all in case you will relapse into an unhealthy one , idk how likely that i assume its quite likely considering my relationship with reddit) but i do have some issues with your logic which i will point out in this reply:

Lets be real , whould likely waste it on mindlessly scrolling reddit or some shit. (To be fair , i have stopped browising reddit for about 7 days and i feel a pretty big increase in my ability to focus on stuff) , General ideea is , likely nothing productive.

If i could chose what i spend this extra time on and had infinite willpower to do it , likely master a skill (ie. drawing/programming , considering the infiite willpower and how programming is harder , do 10000 dedicated practice for programing and try learn as many related things as possible while i am at it (example: math) then give the rest to drawing)

Also i feel like the skill and aquisitions war is quite underrated in my opinion.

2 hours of Porn/PMO
like 2h daily , that sounds a lot even from me , and i have to admit i am quite the masturbator myself. considering that the numbers i have seen for how much sex lasts (avarage) is like 15 min and while i havent seen much for how much masturbation normally lasts , i will assume its within the same/similar for masturbation even tho i guess you can have days where you just masturbate a lot.

Even tho your argument still stands of daily habits adding up over time if we change 2 hours for say a more reasonable 30 min which you have done later in this post.

2,100 working at a $8.50 rate

The issue with the working for extra 22,100hours over 20 years (lets say 2 hours per day) is that you whould need to work those hours which may be not as pleasurable as say: doing litterally anything else. We could also argue you spent the 187,000$ worth of oporunity cost for sexual pleasure and also skipping 2 hours of work for 17$ the span of 20 years. We could make the same argument for anything , for example drawing , do you like drawing , do you do it say 2 hours per day , well too fucking bad you spent 187,000$ over the span of 20 years to make lines on a piece of paper rather than money. Hell , we could argue that getting a girlfriend takes time and that time could have been spend working , or even taking time other than doing anything other than the bare minimum for survival is considered wasted time that could have been spend working

Also conssidering you dont take into account the hedonistic pleasure of the activity , i imagine you dont get anything out of it (which means you should quit really , i mean even this alone is a good reason to quit even if there are no other issues (atleast untill everything is back to normal).) … if masturbation becomes an issue/stops bringing your pleasure (because your brain got very used to it) you should quit it , atleast untill the issue is resolved (or entirely to avoid a possible relapse into the unhealthy)

I want to use this as a wake up call for everyone. You may think that 30 minutes a day, quick fap means nothing.

Same applies for every daily habit really

In college, I had tons of girls flock to me and my room, did I ever close the interaction, ie. get laid? NOT ONCE. I’m not saying nofap is to help you get laid.

Acttualy i will argue that nofap will make your more likely to get laid because you have to seek women to relive the horny rather than just masturbating. But horniness can lead you to think with your penis rather than your brain and for example have sex with a woman that has a pretty high likelyhood of having an STD (for example HIV) and you didnt really bother to make sure she doesnt before hand because horny.

Also will likely improve your social skills when it comes to getting someone in bed because of desperation and you now have to try harder because you cant just relive the urge by just masturbating

As we say in romania “Hunger makes the best chef” (foamea este cel mai bun bucătar) , seems like there is a similar expression in english but idk if it has the same meaning

lower your sex drive

Dont see how this is a bad thing. Maybe i am just not looking at it right. Like is there a benefit to it

I don’t want to see any more people KIA from Water anymore

For fire as well , not in this war and donr perticularly give many fucks about it but i hope yall (Both sides of the war) can accomplish your goal(s).

PMO is BAD! Plain and Simple. I reflect on what I could’ve done, would’ve been. I was a graduate student and college and it went down hill. Might or might not be due to porn, but I was PMOing every day in college enough said. I did it every day, until Maybe 24 years old, even if it was for a quicky. I had a small break where I had long streaks. But, the damage was done physically, mentally, spiritually, and relationship wise.

I know argued against your logic in this post of “you could have used that time for something else” because you can apply it to everything and just turn yourself into a work slave , work 16 hours a day and sleep 8 and repeat ad nauseum with no time off even on weekends with no rest because you could have used the rest time for something else. But considering that it seems I wish you luck on your journey.

I mean, my habits, mannerism, behavior and social interaction reflected me. I even heard people talking behind me back saying. “Is he Jacking off again in the shower?” They would say you know it. If I was ever confined too long in my room, they would joke if I was playing with myself. Of course I said no. Who would admit to that? I was/am embarrassed and ashamed of my actions and hiding it.

Seems like you have a issue with porn considering even others know you are a serial masturbator , you dont seem to gain any physical pleasure from it and may have been so bad it contributed to you not graduating collage (idk how true this is ,kinda implied but you never outright stated it you didnt graduate collage), never had these problems.

In terms of “what others think of you” i guess you could take a page from Diogenes the Cynic and not give a crap what others think of you (or atleast worry about it less, if you worry too much about what others think of you may want to visit a therapist or something) unless it affects you in some way for example “not getting a job” , “not getting a raise” , etc… I mean this is MUCH eazier said than done

I lost a lot, but that war. In this war, we lose people, friends, respect, dignity, money, status, fame. That’s why I’m going so hard on myself and others to not binge or nofap. It’s so easy these days with UNLIMITED MOBILE DATA, on your phone.

Stop browsing social media , have mentioned it and will mention it again , quitting reddit has increased my focus, seems to have brought my willpower/motivation/disciipline (whatever you wanna call it) from complete utter mega dogshit to complete dogshit and i kinda feel happier overall.

Get some site blocker like delayed gratification/cold turkey whatever tf , you may thing it wont to do shit because “you can just disable it lol” it helps you catch yourself in time if you are gonna go habitually and mindlessly scroll [insert social media here] for 29483948 hours straight.

Also quitting reddit has bringed me a LOT of spare time , like my entire fucking day spare time (reddit came at a time where i couldnt even play videogames because of how low energy i was because too much mental effort , like i had a game i enjoyed on my desktop , i knew i whould enjoy that game but i couldnt bring myself to play it , idk if i whould even call it burn out because when i did play it i had a lot of fun , even tho i had a pretty severe feeling of burn out when thinking “i am going to play this/any videogame” , i also used reddit beforehand in a healthier way which may or may have not contributed idk).

Scrolling reddit was a low effort enought activity that i could do it in that time and it stuck around as a BIG FUCKING habit that had not doing something important or being bored a trigger , aka. the entirety of my spare time , so:

If spare_time == True or bored== True:
    reddit.open()

Which is a sure recipie for disaster

I’m making a commitment now, to commit the next 14,600 hours to better myself and others. This is my 4th nofap war. It won’t be my last.

GOOD LUCK MY FRIEND!

I have tons of material I want to write about now, imagine how many books I can write over 14,600 times. I could’ve been a master novelist, amongst other things.

Whould recomend you join the skill aquistion wars for aquring skills, we need more people , we had like idk 10 participants , i imagine 5 on each team , 1 single guy remains on one team and the other has like 4 people , and i think 2 where lost (didnt check in, not KIA but you can still lose because if it , dont remember how its called) because they forgot about the war and another 2 just KIAd,

Basically we need more people and whould recommend you join.