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Originally Posted by urgeok2
no one said life wasnt tough ...
a lot tougher for some ...
but the ONLY way to survive is to deal with the issues, work on the broken parts, draw strength from the things that are going right.
you are young and attractive - you have 4 healthy kids, a supportive family.
all things that give you a huge chance for survival.
I think things will improve ... new challenges alway pop up - they do for everyone .. but i'm pretty sure you'll be looking back at this one day thinking ... well, i got through that ok.
oh - and i know it's not on the same scale - but i do practice what i preach (re perspectives)
I was getting really depressed about the winters up here. VERY depressed ... our summers go by so fast ... the winters are so long and shitty ... and this summer in particular - it rained every day.
but earlier this year - i'm reading the papers and seeing in the news that hurricanes are sweeping away homes and lives in the caribbean, land slides buting 10's of thousands of people in china, the horror in Burma.
I thought to myself - fuck it - Canada has to be the weather - safest place on the planet. I never have to worry about these things ever.
so my perspective had a complete shift .. i realized that i was luckier than most of the rest of the world - and resolved to not worry about the winters anymore.
I'll just stay inside and watch a lot of movies until its over :)
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Interesting, this has been my general outlook on life since I was a kid; It took growing up to make me forget it. Now that things have leveled off some, I am starting to come back around; Right now is not nearly as bad as it was a month ago, so I am doing pretty damn good. I am not getting sleep because I am busy, with paying work.
i could be doing a lot worse.
Bree and I were at each other's throats for a long time (WAY too long), but I sucked it up, cleaned up my shit, and now things are better than they have been in years.
It sucks admitting youve been screwin gup, but it feels so much better when you're done :)