Guard talks a lot about "lust" being an addiction like alcoholism or drug abuse, and in many ways it is (and the tools to defeat those can be used to defeat this). But in one important way it is different: With this disease, the rest of the world encourages us to walk around with it... There is an active movement to spread it... It is a social cancer...
Now that I've been clean for over a month, I am starting to feel a bit like Charlton Heston stranded on a primate planet with all the apes and orangutans that have run it to the ground... I just look around me and wonder how the heck we got to this point.... Is this what G-d saw when he decreed man's desire to be just evil from its youth?... Was the world always this messed up and I've just been oblivious to it? Did things get worse at some point in recent history?... I mean, imagine a world where everywhere you turn, there are ads and programs and networks and government sponsored agencies encouraging you to become a heroin addict... You turn on TV for some mindless entertainment or go to the movies, and BOOM you're hit with the virtues of heroin in particular, and opium in general... Kids programs have characters that shoot up... the schools teach you about safe heroin use... and a junkie comes every day to your doorstep to drop a dime on you... This is the world we live in....
GuardYourEyes is like my little embassy on this planet... It's awful how much help is needed versus how much help is available... I can already hear the roar of a wave that can drown the whole world... Sometimes I feel like Guard has commandeered one of those tiny little rowboats coming off the Titanic and we're one of the lucky ones to get on... The rest of the hopeless idiots on the big ship are swaying to "Nearer, My God, to Thee"...
"I had a dream" that one day, GYE will be able to help thousands upon thousands of people who are drowning in the Titanic of Lust. GYE will be a Teivah (ark) in the Mabul of Taivah (in the flood of desire). We will have "FORUMS IN YIDDISH, HEBREW ETC.." as bardichev said... and chat rooms too, for all types of struggles. SA, SLAA, SSA, Male, Female, separate forums and chatrooms for each type of struggle and for each gender... And we'll have moderators for each one. RATM, you will be a moderator for one of the chatrooms and/or forums. So will Mr.b, and so will the Rebbetzin - for the women's chatrooms/forums... I can't do this all alone, but we'll have you all trained by then, IY"H. I already have an extensive "profile sign-up page" under design, looking for teams of web-designers to help me make GYE much more useful and user-friendly (using the donations from this year's appeal)... People will only be allowed into the chatrooms and forums of the gender and addiction that they are struggling with... They will be able to find partners and sponsors... We also plan to have 24 hour phone network for support with professionals on the line, in Israel, U.S, UK and other places... We will have books published, pamphlets, etc... We'll have a special web-development department, and a whole advertising department too!
You guys are going to make this happen. We will yet wrest control of this "planet of the Apes" back into human hands. But I need you all. Of-course we need to recover first, and then we all need to work together.
Be part of it. La viva revolution!
A really, really wise man once said: "I really wanted to save the whole world. When I thought about it though, it became clear that the world was too big for little me. So, I decided to save all of Poland. Also too big. So I decided it'd have to be enough for me to save my town. Still too big. OK, my neighborhood. Oy, still too big. OK, my family. Not working.... I guess I'll get myself fixed up and leave the rest to Hashem."
Well, he (the Chafetz Chaim) went on to help bazillions of Jews live a more meaningful and clean life with "Shmiras Halashon, Mishna Berurah, Nidchei Yisroel, etc... and just by being a blinding example of what a real, holy yid is.
An addict who heard that story said: "Well, I tried to fix myself up and even that was too big for me - my middos, my past, my present, my future, oy!! So instead of saving the whole me, I tried to just save my own reputation. That wasn't working very well either... OK, I guess I'll just save my life. Kinda selfish, but...nu."
And in just trying to save his own life, this person got so much of Hashem's help that his middos, past, present, future, and his reputation all got fixed up more than he ever imagined they'd ever be. And, as if by accident, hundreds of others were helped to live a better life, too.
And he or she is every one of us GYE-nicks. So keep sharing.