Originally Posted by wordtank
I just want to be able to lead a normal life. I have good days, but they are too far and few behind for me to accept this life.
Hi Tank, a saying that I love is, "the only normal people are the ones I haven't met yet". I think having good and bad days is pretty normal, I found that there were more good days over time. I had to often get my thinking around to a worse life to appreciate my present life. Stuff like, "I am not begging on the streets of India" ... "I am not addicted to heroin" ... "I do not have cancer" ... AND other things I tried to think about were my good points, "I am reasonably intelligent, physically coordinated, not totally ugly ...". Being grateful for what I have and imagining a worse world for myself helped me.
Then I just read this Groucho Marx thing "I've had a great evening, just wasn't this evening." (or words to that effect)
love brigid
