Dear self,
Why do you push your luck with things? You're running out of preventative measures, and yet you know, deep down and from years of experience, that you will ignore every logical thought, or opportunity to stop, until the first real consequence actually happens.
Until then, it isn't real to you.
But it is real to you.
It is.
All of this time, up until that point, is yours for the taking. That time now seems shorter than ever; duh, that's how time and long term damage f*****g works.
So stop. The threat on the horizon grows less vague with every advancing day you do not. Stop now, and halt it.
Do not come back to me when it hits and plead regret.
Regret will not help you then.
But you can help you now.
In summary: get your s**t together, Rachel.