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First you get the sugar, then you get the money, then you get the women...
Let Go of My SUGAR!!!
Okay, I don't really have a gross of sugar around here, but I could.
I want to make yet another point about the control that we each have over our own life.
If you walk to work everyday, and two houses down there's a dog that bites you every single day,what do you do? Do you:
a) yell at the dog each day, eventually he'll stop.
b) kick the dog each day, maybe he'll stop.
c) tell the owner of the dog each day, maybe he'll do something eventually.
d) change your route to work.
e) deal with it, there's nothing to be done.
The answer should be pretty obvious. There is always a choice you can take that will make things better. There are also many choices that could be tried, but may not work. My point is that your fate is ultimately in your own hands. Complain all you like about how much the world sucks, but only you can fix your own life.
They say that the definition of insantiy is repeating the same behaviors and expecting different results.
And dammit, that is true. That must be why I quote it so often...
In the end, I'm saying two things:
1- I love my readers at LJ very much, and I want them to be happy and successful.
2- You are all grown-ups or thereabouts. Stop complaining to everyone in sight about your problems if you aren't doing anything meanningful about them. Yes, life is hard, and everyone suffers. No One gets treated well all the time, and no one gets everything they need handed to them forever. But we all have power to control out own lives. What we do with each day we are given is wholle and entirely up to us, and only we are held accountable in the end.
If you don't defend yourself, no one else will.
If you don't know that you deserve good things, no one else will tell you.
If you don't love yourself, no one else will ever really love you.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you won't get anything else done with your day...
Okay, I don't really have a gross of sugar around here, but I could.
I want to make yet another point about the control that we each have over our own life.
If you walk to work everyday, and two houses down there's a dog that bites you every single day,what do you do? Do you:
a) yell at the dog each day, eventually he'll stop.
b) kick the dog each day, maybe he'll stop.
c) tell the owner of the dog each day, maybe he'll do something eventually.
d) change your route to work.
e) deal with it, there's nothing to be done.
The answer should be pretty obvious. There is always a choice you can take that will make things better. There are also many choices that could be tried, but may not work. My point is that your fate is ultimately in your own hands. Complain all you like about how much the world sucks, but only you can fix your own life.
They say that the definition of insantiy is repeating the same behaviors and expecting different results.
And dammit, that is true. That must be why I quote it so often...
In the end, I'm saying two things:
1- I love my readers at LJ very much, and I want them to be happy and successful.
2- You are all grown-ups or thereabouts. Stop complaining to everyone in sight about your problems if you aren't doing anything meanningful about them. Yes, life is hard, and everyone suffers. No One gets treated well all the time, and no one gets everything they need handed to them forever. But we all have power to control out own lives. What we do with each day we are given is wholle and entirely up to us, and only we are held accountable in the end.
If you don't defend yourself, no one else will.
If you don't know that you deserve good things, no one else will tell you.
If you don't love yourself, no one else will ever really love you.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you won't get anything else done with your day...
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So you did see my Moral Commission sketch as a cry for help.
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I will try to avoid discussing my situation until I can do something about it.
"Hey Dan, How's it goin'?"
"Goin' great! How 'bout you?"
If I don't vote, I shouldn't gripe about the government.
Same goes for my personal life...This is something I must remember.
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all true, and beautifully stated as well..
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Wednes, You are the greatest! Oh and another thing it would depend if you were a wacked out person that loved pain also. HEHEHE I gotta go change my diaper now. I laughed too hard.
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As always, i enjoy your input. when the heck are you guys (you and Derek presumably) coming out to MI? Haven't you heard? it's a water wonderland up in here!
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Oh, you DO attempt to change stuff you bitch about actually. I just meant PART of the time you may bitch just to blow off steam. Sometiems, that's healthy. It's unhealthy for those doing it in excess. I see that you write goals and stuff in your posts and that's awesome... I think I felt like your journal was you saying you're trying to do that do (do something about stuff rather than complaining) and it'd be a good idea if we all did that. And it IS a good idea. That's why I'm temporarily changing my major for the spring until I get my head back on. :)
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Also, I would not hope to imply that complaining is never okay. A certain amount of venting is normal, natural and totally appropriate. Its just that when complaints are the ONLY way you dealw ith a situation, it is not enough and very taxing to those around you.
When you have a good friend, you don't want to hear one day that everything is crap and suicide is the only way out, then hear that everything is fine and you're going out for a few beers. you know what I mean...
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