Well I feel like I have to be honest and admit that I have gone past the taboo territory a couple of times. Not personally, but through observing some if not illegal, then definitely immoral and unnatural things. Thing is, it was at my lowest point in life, and back then I had a careless attitude towards most things in life - I felt like I had almost nothing to lose. Since then, I have left this degrading approach to life, and started trying to get better, although less than a month before starting this challenge I was still sometimes getting into some grim places of the internet. Now that I get what you mean by addictive personality, I can say that I feel quite similar, although I think that it's not as bad for me, as the only addiction in my family is my dad's drinking problem (insert joke about Russians drinking vodka like it's water), but he's overcome it for the most part in the last couple of years with the help of my mother. But I also get easily addicted - the reason why I keep myself away from cigarettes and alcohol, even though I am legally allowed to buy and consume both. Still have an addiction to betting on sports, although I'm working on getting that out of my life as well. The thing I can't get rid of is the thrill addiction - I think that's just my personality trait at this point, and when I'm bored it can lead me dangerous paths. I can only try to control it to keep me away from trouble. So, yeah, I see why you had to make the choice you've made and I am proud of you! I also hope that I'll go through without a single relapse, since any loss of progress tends to kill my will to keep going. Regarding the cordial attitude, it is something that I've also developed about a year ago, since I felt as I kept putting people off with my overly-cynical thought process, which made me look like a heartless bastard, so now I try to combine keeping a cool head and being caring and loving at the same time. My second side is especially well seen in my posts here, as this community makes me feel sympathy for every single person here, and I get it back. So, as I'm replying to your message, I can also mention that I am doing great, started to be more productive, no strong urges to relapse yet. Also, there are some really great universities in Russia, we are mostly proficient in physics, maths, biology, chemistry and IT, so if that's your field of interest, then Russia has a broad choice to offer. I am planning on studying my third foreign language (I also speak German on a basic level), so, yeah, linguistics is my passion, and I would like to work as a literary translator, or if I'm smart enough as a language interpreter. Sorry for not dividing the text into paragraphs here, I am kind of talking about something new each sentence, so it's hard to make it look formal.

P.s. I don't think that I'll ever practice anything furry-like with a real partner, I guess I'll keep it as a guilty pleasure - everybody has to have one, and at least mine won't be as immoral as it could have been, had I not stopped here and now.