Change sometimes just means accepting who you are.
I’ve spent a great deal of my life trying to change. Feeling like I was medium rare and not well done. Now, after five decades I’m finally the person I want to be.
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Letting go of your inner demons.
“Why don’t you write?” I was asked and my answer came fast and ready “Because hell would break loose.” Now, as I think about it years later I realize that that hell was only mine. As I wrote, the old demons came out and I was able to face them and let them go. The […]
Read More…Can’t imagine a life without you.
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh There are things we are never ready for and this is loss. This quote from Winnie the Pooh sums up how I feel about loss. […]
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You are not a victim: Take responsibility for your life and move on.
We seem to feel we are victims of our circumstances, as Ortega y Gasset said, and that we can’t do anything about it. We feel helpless, and find a million excuses to stay stuck in the same place.
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Life owes us nothing.
We often feel entitled to certain things, making it difficult for us to live and accept our fates. Life is a gamble where we are given our own chips to play. We win and lose, but we really shouldn’t complain if the outcome is not of our liking. If we do, well, we will suffer […]
Read More…Keep moving.
“Life is like riding a bicycle.
Read More…Is it too late?
Even in my twenties I thought it was too late for me to start something new. And so it’s been until recently. I suppose age has a lot to do with it. Now that I am deep into my 40’s, I have come to feel that I have much less to lose. All those what […]
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At the end of the day…
That quiet time at the end of the day when you find yourself alone and can summarize your day, your life. A time when it all comes quiet and your mind is too tired to make excuses. It is at this time that you can sit and look at your life and say: I did […]
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Help me remember what was good
When things go awry we stay stuck in the bad experience and forget the rest. The good stuff is lost in the fog of our disappointment, seemingly not being able to go back to a place where we can see the positive aspects of what unfolded.
Read More…Keep breathing…
There are times when all you can do is keep breathing. When pain is so dull and deafening that all you can do is give in. You are so paralyzed by the overwhelming emotion that you are at a loss, stuck and unable to move on. You cannot change how you feel at will. If […]
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