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Today is a good day. I awoke feeling like crap........migrane, legs burning, hips like I had been pulled on a rack for hours, back feeling like a pretzel.......Just like the brother Chet in the movie Weird Science when he is turned into a big piece of crap.
You got the picture. Anyway, here I am all feeling like crap, thinking I will do what absolutely needs to be done and then go to bed and sleep for hours and to hell with the world.
So I check my messeges before throwing my one-person pity party, complete with balloons, and read the most touching, moving, emotional, yet uplifting journal entry that I can imagine.
SLAPPPPPPPPPP...REALITY CHECK.
I ask myself.....WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU WOMAN? GET UP OFF YOUR SORRY ASS, STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF, LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU, AND WAKE UP. MY LITTLE COMPLAINTS AIN'T NOTHING...I REPEAT.....NOTHING AT ALL BUT A HILL OF CANDY CORNS COMPARED TO WHAT MY FRIENDS ARE GOING THROUGH.........
.AND
THEY
ARE
POSITIVE
CARING
LOVING
PEOPLE, WHO WORRY ABOUT ME?????????
Every now and then I have the urge to send someone a thank you note for making me wake up. But just imagine if you will what I could say,,,,,,,,,um thanks for having such a terrible life because it makes mine look good.........or ummm, thanks for worrying about my sorry ass when you can't walk today.........how lame would that be.
Did some thinking on this dilemna and this is what I have come up with.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY DEAR FRIENDS WHO BRING ME BACK TO REALITY ON A REGULAR BASIS, MAKE ME LAUGH, SHOW ME THE REAL WORLD THROUGH THEIR EXAMPLE OF SELFLESSNESS, SAVE ME FROM DROWNING IN MY OWN SELF, AND MAKING ME REALIZE THAT THERE IS A MUCH HIGHER ROAD FOR ME TO TAKE.
THE HIGHER ROAD IS TO HEAL MYSELF BY HELPING TO HEAL OTHERS.
IN CONCLUSION........IF YOU EVER NEED AN EAR, YOU HAVE MINE
You got the picture. Anyway, here I am all feeling like crap, thinking I will do what absolutely needs to be done and then go to bed and sleep for hours and to hell with the world.
So I check my messeges before throwing my one-person pity party, complete with balloons, and read the most touching, moving, emotional, yet uplifting journal entry that I can imagine.
SLAPPPPPPPPPP...REALITY CHECK.
I ask myself.....WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU WOMAN? GET UP OFF YOUR SORRY ASS, STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF, LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU, AND WAKE UP. MY LITTLE COMPLAINTS AIN'T NOTHING...I REPEAT.....NOTHING AT ALL BUT A HILL OF CANDY CORNS COMPARED TO WHAT MY FRIENDS ARE GOING THROUGH.........
.AND
THEY
ARE
POSITIVE
CARING
LOVING
PEOPLE, WHO WORRY ABOUT ME?????????
Every now and then I have the urge to send someone a thank you note for making me wake up. But just imagine if you will what I could say,,,,,,,,,um thanks for having such a terrible life because it makes mine look good.........or ummm, thanks for worrying about my sorry ass when you can't walk today.........how lame would that be.
Did some thinking on this dilemna and this is what I have come up with.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY DEAR FRIENDS WHO BRING ME BACK TO REALITY ON A REGULAR BASIS, MAKE ME LAUGH, SHOW ME THE REAL WORLD THROUGH THEIR EXAMPLE OF SELFLESSNESS, SAVE ME FROM DROWNING IN MY OWN SELF, AND MAKING ME REALIZE THAT THERE IS A MUCH HIGHER ROAD FOR ME TO TAKE.
THE HIGHER ROAD IS TO HEAL MYSELF BY HELPING TO HEAL OTHERS.
IN CONCLUSION........IF YOU EVER NEED AN EAR, YOU HAVE MINE
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
My slap came unexpectedly and indirectly from a known source that I had put up on a shelf some time ago.
I purposely watched Dr. Phil today because Mitch Albom was going to be on. He wrote Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and most recently, For One More Day. He captures the human condition like very few can. I believe that God is using him to carry the message that Morrie had hoped would help just one person. Tuesdays With Morrie was on the Best Seller list for 4 years!
I cried my way thru all of these books . At the time I read each of them, I was moved, but apparently not sufficiently inspired because I put them on the shelf and went on with my miserable life.
Then, today, the slap came out of nowhere, right thru my 24" TV screen and left a huge hand print on the back of my head!
I've been fighting with & against my firbo.
I've been fighting with & against the debilitating fatigue (and seemingly permanent flare) caused by taking lipitor for 7 years.
I've been fighting the pain of my recent divorce from a person who never got my fibro or me.
I'm hurt and angry about it all.
One of Morrie's questions: If you knew you were going to die today, what would you regret?
One of Morrie's wise statements: Make peace with living.
I came here for support and received more than I could have every imagined. I have met & made better friends here than in the town where I live.
And there I sat this morning, feeling sorry for myself.
I need to take a lesson from Morrie and make peace with living. Accepting and living my life the way it is and finding joy in my DS relationships.
I am truly and deeply grateful for my DS friends. You are my life line.
And now, with your continued support, I will go about the task of making peace with my life AND being there to support you as well.
Gentle Hugs to ALL!
PS, I am always in awe of how things work - there are no coincidences or accidents. I saw the Candy Corn post before I watched Mitch Albom and I did not read it (or maybe I was led not to read it). After the big slap, I came back to the boards and then read it. All things in their own time...