What may bring hope…
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place.
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When life comes to a standstill.
We go along our paths, some more happily than others, and all of a sudden one day, life comes into a standstill. You crash into a roadblock, caught so off guard that you are unable to figure out what hit you and how bad the damage is.
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My long ass list of what I will do in 2016
Since I didn’t celebrate my fiftieth with a bang, I will celebrate starting the new year, setting goals to keep me focussed on what is important to me. This will be my 5oth celebration. Another year of change, hopes and good tidings.
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My happiest moment was my cure for expressing affection.
Throughout our lives, hopefully, we collect happy moments, some small, some big. The latter, which we may consider the happiest may remain in our memory forever unless they become overshadowed by unfortunate events and then gone, forgotten and replaced by others. I have one I distinctly remember and it was grand. I hadn’t felt so much […]
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Watch me rising…
This is what happens to all of us if we allow ourselves to leave behind the “lessons” and begin to rise after we’ve fallen.
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Will this be my last?
As I indulged in my self-destructive habit out on the porch last night, I thought to myself if this was to be my last. We really never know. So, I enjoyed my cigarette thinking; Shouldn’t we live with this frame of mind? Life can take a turn at any moment.
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Resilience: The ability to cope in the face of grief.
Resilience is the human capacity to adapt to circumstances in the face of grief or adversity, whether coping with the loss of a loved one, a layoff, a disease, a divorce, or any emotionally disrupting event. It is resilience that enables us to pick ourselves up and go on with our lives despite the pain. […]
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Lessons we learn from regret.
Regret: feeling sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity). Oxford Dictionaries We cannot live looking back in constant regret, but we can learn the lessons regret teaches us. True that we cannot undo or change what’s been done, but regret does serve a purpose.
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Sparks of happiness.
Happiness is in you. But there is a way to spark happiness and set up a fire. Maybe short lived but it adds up if you look for it and are ready to see it. This does come with age. Genuine feelings of happiness are sparked as we appreciate those things that when we were […]
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When to keep silent.
As honest as we might want to be, there are times we must remain silent. Keeping a secret even when it means we will live tormented by it. We have to learn to live with it somehow, hoping that in time it will become easier.
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