Live

My heart aches for those experiencing any type of darkness in their lives.  So many people are struggling with loss, health, self-esteem, family or work issues.  

 

I listen to all of you, I hear all of you, I embrace all of you.   Your burdens become my burdens and I stand with you as you fight to build a beam of light in your tunnel of darkness. 

 

I want to help, I want to fix, I want to take you by the hand and guide you to happier times.   But I cannot.   I have learned, through fighting through my own trials and tribulations, that no one can fix you ...except you.

 

When motivation to get up the couch and take a walk escapes you, look at the person who is fighting cancer.

 

When family issues pull you down, look to the orphan who has no family.

 

When your finances are slim, look to the homeless person.

 

When your job has your stomach turning in knots, look to the person who has no job.

 

It's going to take work.  It's going to take some perseverance and determination to make things better.  It may be that you need to set the only goal of just waking up and believing that each day is a new day to get it right. 

 

 There are going to be good days and bad days.   More often than not, you'll have more bad days than good.  When you have the good days, celebrate them, embrace them, and look forward to them, remember the feeling of them.   Then strive to make several of them, in succession, so eventually you have more good days than bad.

 

This video spoke to me so much that I wanted to share it.  The young man in this video has limited years to live due to CF.   He fights to live each day as if it were his last.  It's a wakeup call to the able bodied people who are sitting on the couch, wishing their life were better.  

 

Life doesn't come with a remote - you have to get up and change it yourself.

 

 

 

 

2015

We're 9 days in to 2015.  Hard to believe; time is going too fast.  Life is going too fast. It seemed like yesterday that I was blogging about Firsts.  Yet when I look at the date, I see that it was November. 

Life seems to move at a fast pace while standing still.   My days are extremely busy, the hours move at break-pace speed.  I'm working hard, I'm busy, every single day.  So much so that I have a note on my google calendar for Sundays - "Sherry's Day - Don't schedule anything."   I give so much of myself to everyone Monday through Saturday that I think I deserve the right to give Me one day out of the week to disconnect with the world.  To escape.   Which in my world usually means hitting the gym, bike riding (in the summer) for hours, taking out an ICAP dog or spending time with friends.

My mother in law is doing a little better I guess.  We've put her on an appetite stimulant and it seems to be working.  She's gone from a gaunt 73 lbs to 81 lbs in a month.  She's still a cantankerous 94 yr old lady who is depressed and never happy with anything or anyone in her life.  It sucks the happy right out of me whenever I go visit her.  But I love her and would do anything for her. 

Work is ok.  A co-worker is gone for 8 weeks and another will be gone for four weeks.  I'll be pulling double and triple duty.  It sucks.  I'm busy with my own work but then you add on their work and it's going to be sheer craziness.   It's a good thing I do yoga!

I do not know what 2015 holds in store for me.  None of us have that crystal ball, do we?  I do plan on living life, being the best that I can be, keeping an open heart and to keep on believing - in myself, in others, life and love.