𝐇𝐢 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞
𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐡.
𝐈'𝐦 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨.
𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬. 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞.
𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 :)
- take your pills with something. I know it’s good bragging that you can take pills dry but it really sucks to get esophagus problems from that. If you have trouble washing them down or psyching yourself up to swallow, try it with food! Oatmeal, prunes, or banana were my favorites
- take it ten steps at a time. Literally. If you don’t know how you’ll manage to get through an hour meeting or a long distance, count your steps or breaths. Focus on the pattern, walk to syllables to your favorite poem or song, count in French, whatever gets you through that small chunk of time. Then do it again
- have a distraction. Your brain can’t face your symptoms all the time. Watch or listen to something for everything
- sit down. Sitting usually hurts less than standing for me. Sit while brushing teeth, showering, sorting laundry
- switch your media. You will build negative associations to a song you listen to when you are in pain. Some take longer than others. I constantly cycle through music and keep a playlist of music that seems immune to the associations
- take breaks. Pace yourself. There’s no shame if you need to take four days to cut your nails or read one paragraph at a time
- plan for rest days. I usually have a day before and after a task set to just prepare and recover
Please add your wisdom!
The truth is, sometimes you will hurt people. Sometimes, you will hurt people, and then life will move on, and you won’t have any way to apologize, or make up for it. But, your past mistakes do not define who you are now. You are allowed to move on without guilt haunting you over things you might have done years ago. You are allowed to come to terms with the things you did that were wrong, to change, and to grow from those experiences; you will never be stuck in one spot if you will yourself to own up to it, pull yourself up, and start again.
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
— Alexander den Heijer
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
— Erica Jong
right now you might be in a situation that you think you won’t survive but six months ago you were in a situation that you didn’t think you’d survive and two years before that you were in a situation you didn’t think you’d survive and the point is you will always surprise yourself and you will always make it through
Think about this and then give your mind and energies to more worthy ideas..
oh to live in a secluded little cottage with a pretty garden somewhere in the countryside
Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.
Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!
friendly reminder that being disabled is a full-time job. don’t let anyone make you feel bad for not working when you are physically incapable. you work harder than anyone else just to keep up with your day-to-day life.
