PLAYING IT THROUGH?

I often use the phrase, play it through in my writing and I just wanted to explain what that means to me. I was talking to someone that I love very much and she is struggling with addiction herself. I told her that she needs to play the day through in order to help her stay clean for the day. It is a very powerful tool to use when dealing with cravings.
Let me use today as a for instance. OK it is Friday and I have about 200 dollars, I wake up and get ready to go to work but my mind is on drugs, all through the day I am on the phone trying to get the dealer to meet me after work, you see he has a busy schedule. I get off work and meet him and I pick up. I would pick up a 20 or 40 dollar rock of crack cocaine. When I got home I could hardly wait to start on it, that is when the chaos starts.
If my girlfriend wasn't home I would phone her and leave a message to call me because the paranoia is starting. If the phone rings I definitely won't answer it because I would have to talk.
I would bent over looking for something I might have dropped on the floor (this is something that crack addicts do when high ) The crack is now running out so I make that phone call to the dealer but it is traffic hour so he can't come for an hour or so. I start to scrape my pipe to get one toke out of it and keep repeating this until I am smoking metal shavings. The dealer phones and says he is on his way and now I get totally paranoid because my girlfriend is coming home so I keep phoning the both of them to see if they are going to be here at the same time. The dealer finally arrives and I buy another white which is a 40 dollar rock but since he has to come here he charges me 50 dollars ( what a guy ) I run into the living room and take a toke and the paranoia starts all over again. My girlfriend phones and says she is going to a movie because she knows something is up. I sit and keep doing the drugs until it is gone and I am totally messed up the whole time, I run out of the crack and make another phone call the whole time being paranoid, by the end of the night I get a front of 50 dollars if I am lucky( ya right) my girlfriend would get home and would go straight to bed. I would finally finish about 5 am after scraping the pipe.
Now lets play today through. I woke up and thought about the car I just bought and how nice it was going to be to drive into work today without over heating, as I started to get into the town where I work the only thought on my mind is how good the Starbucks coffee is going to taste.
I do my work and it is getting close to the end of the day and I can't wait to get home to walk my dog. We both went to the park and sat their and talked, I am up stairs right now writing this and my girlfriend is painting. We might go out later or just sit in and rent a movie.
I am just relaxed and content and tomorrow I will wake up early and take the dog for a long walk with a Starbucks coffee in my hand and about 198 dollars in my pocket.
Please do me a favor and play your day through and after a thought I bet you know which of the two you want to live through.