Sunday, August 10, 2014

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life!"

Can you claim rights to a quote if its author is unknown?
After careful consideration and research and being misguided apparently for over forty years thinking that Marlo Thomas was responsible for the above entitled quote; I was wrong, it has been unclaimed all these years... so I call DIBS!

Oh alright, I do know that it doesn't really work like that, but I say, "why not?"
Each day is by all rights a NEW BEGINNING, true?
Of course it is.
That is something that when thought about while spending too much time in the doldrums has been my own personal spirited way out!
Simplicity at its finest, talk about poignant quotes.
If all clinically depressed people could possess, entrench themselves in the truth of that statement many of them would become mystically well, theoretically, almost, well wouldn't that be nice, if only? 

Okay, for many a mood swing to be that lithe one might be considered many other things, perhaps flighty, too emotional, manipulative,oh so many negative things other than what they actually are...capable of getting themselves back on track with 'happy thoughts' without any professional intervention!

Personally, I have had that kind of therapy three times in my life, and what it teaches you is that you are more capable than you think...PS I was the one who chose to go, no one sent me, family or doctors or anyone... just for clarification, first was for grief counseling after my mother died, in only eleven and half hours at seventy from a major stroke, I was 31. The second time was after the Hurricane Charley in 2004 and I had PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder with our home being destroyed with us in it and the third time was trying to get a handle on me dealing with the Multiple Sclerosis in 2011, and the first two times I was pronounced well after just a few months visits spread out and the last time I got compassionate understanding saying I don't blame your frustration and periodic depression, all normal with any chronic illness, whew, also only two or three months with spread out visits and so between those experiences and my two years of psychology classes I still know very little except that is what has worked for me, and has prevented me from allowing sadness to overtake me for way too long... never more than a day or two for my method of confrontation of that evil dragon!

Distraction splattered with positive thoughts and decent people who care too...nothing works better than that! And oh I almost forgot the most important thing, Today is the first day of the rest of your life"!

Life has a way of catching us all off guard at times and for me I take my little mental holidays with finding what makes me smile and get out of myself...used to be helping others and now its watching a silly show or listening to my favorite:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/pharrell-24-hour-music-video_n_4318756.html

Take that doldrums!

On that happy, happy note, take twenty-four hours of Happy and call me in the morning...allow me to wish all of you a very HAPPY night and ask you to happily count all your blessings and be happier to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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