If you look for the bad in people surely you will find it.

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts" ...Eleanor Roosevelt

Support and Hugs Alice

^ God don't make trash.

^ Life's challenges are the drill sergeants which train your full potential.

^ When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

^ Problems are opportunities for growth.

^ Compost happens.

^ Keep putting one foot in front of the other and you are bound to get somewhere.

^ Sometimes ya just gotta say, "What the fuck."

only in the darkness do we get to see the stars.

bull sh!it makes great fertilizer for hope. that's why my garden is greener.

Sometimes "you gotta be your own hero." From the song You Own Hero by Steve Forbert. I got to see him sing it live and take a picture with him, finally, this year.

"There might be someone thinks I'm odd
Cause I sound gloomy and grim
And they might wish I'd sing
An old hit love song,
But I'm not wishin' on them
No, I'm not wishin' on them

Those times when you
Got to be your own hero"


For years now the song's been my go to song when stuff's bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLJSsOVsvs

When you're going through hell, keep going.

Alice I have seen this post all day and wanted to say something positive...but...the words running in y head are all academic. Blah Blah

But my mind also things in music too when I need to breathe...
Here is one that always makes me feel stronger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4
Sara Bareilles - Brave

I do this every step I take on my way to classes, or opening a new assignment. I even stumped my professor in a discussion..So satisfying to see him say "I really don't know, I don't have an answer." Living experience is sometimes better than book experience..so be brave LIVE!

Thank you for all of the support and affirmations/quotes!

I had a meeting with the neurosurgeon regarding the brain surgery today; I had to spend several hours driving alone (while combating optic nerve tremors), going to this appointment by myself, paying a copay... just for him to tell me in the first two minutes he won't do the brain surgery himself and will be referring me somewhere out of state (which my insurance declined last time). When I got home I was both exhausted and very, very sore. My physical body is in terrible condition and the doctor's response to me just seemed like the same 'ol same 'ol run-around. You know? Everyone I see keeps telling me I need it, but everyone keeps telling me I need to go out of state to get it, and my insurance keeps telling me no. Meanwhile two and a half years have passed and I am just steadily getting worse. It's frustrating and while I normally deal with my physical health issues with grace, today was not that kind of day.

That said, I have gotten sleep and am in a slightly better mood now and am ready to re-face my life (if that makes sense).

For those of you who are interested or could use them some of my favorite positive quotes and affirmations are:

"The deeper the mud, the more beautiful the lotus blossoms." - Chinese Proverb

"Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.../ The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value." - Robert A Heinlein, as written in Starship Troopers

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness; not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind." -Aristotle

On a fun note, I also like this one (though it's not an affirmation, I just find it speaks to me):

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. - Katherine Mansfield

Alice, this is the medical person in me, cancer survivor twice and Brain Injury person (suddenly could not read/process/write anything) instant medical leave/) then disability.. my eyes/brain are a daily journey in pain, fatigue, dark glasses....reason I said that..if the doctors keep saying" no we can't/won't....and refer you out of state, and that is written record, the Insurance better step up...even large teaching hospitals (I worked in one) have Free Care...of course meeting their guidelines, I am in the NE...lots of big hospitals..it is so frustrating going doctor to doctor...been there too!! Support and Hugs...Thanks for your affirmations too!