'If I'm not bothered, then it shouldn't bother you.....'

I didn't say that, this young woman did .......

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This is not about comparing one condition with another, nor is it about saying there are people worse off than me, illness is an individual thing.

This is about being on the inside looking out. I can't imagine being Louise and she can't imagine being me. We both have what we have. For each other and our loved ones, for whom our respective statuses seem 'intolerable' the truth for me is this.

We adapt, we change, we tolerate, we live with, we have no choice. And thats how it is. Try and overlay your life onto mine your head will spin. If I think about being Louise, or another gutsy woman I know Leanne, my head would spin. We can wear our own heads and manage.

My point tonight is a little cloudy, I have overdosed on chocolate and emotion, but I guess if anything its this. This is how I feel ..... Its down to each of us to make the very best life we can have, no one else. Illness is lonely but for me not in a sad way. In a way that makes me know that I must be the one to drive forward, to find solutions, to make things happen. I must do this for me. And I do.

Bravo Louise

[jillannf6]

HI COLEEEN

I KNWO YOU DO!!!

AND PLZ KEEP YOUR BLOGS UP

I AM GOOD AND I KNWO I CANNTO BEAT THIS PSP BUT I MAKE TH EMOST OF EACH DAY

AND TRY AND STAY POSITIVE WHEN I HAV EFALLEN TOO AMNY TIMES

LOL jILL

[shasha in reply to jillannf6]

good for you jill xxx

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Jill, I'll pick you up anytime anyday anywhere x

[Jocee]

Excellent post. It is what it is and we must adjust or be miserable.

[shasha in reply to Jocee]

i agree - it is up to all of us to be as happy and cheerful as it is possible to be

love to all who have PD

PSP

OR MSA

XXX OOO XXXX

[tlongmire in reply to shasha]

That's so true. We must play the cards we've been dealt and hope we win.

Hugs, Terri

[Pete-1]

A Greek fellow from a while back (Epictetus – AD 55 to AD 135) once proclaimed "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

So you can be happy in miserable circumstances (though I guess that's quite hard going sometimes) and you can take a determined and enthusiastic view of your perhaps quite dire straights.

Or you can allow yourself to be downhearted and completely dispirited with each little setback.

How could this be otherwise when some become broken souls after only a minor disaster befalls them yet others in perhaps worse circumstances mange to maintain some kind of equilibrium or even flourish?

[tlongmire in reply to Pete-1]

Well said, Pete.

Hugs, Terri

[jillannf6]

HI PETE 1

WELL SAID

LOL jiLL

pma positiv emental attitude is wha tis inprotant

[tlongmire]

Colleen,

You are right must make the most of our days whether they are good or bad. It's the only way we can push forward.

Hugs, Terri

[Koko]

Well said.

We are the masters of our own destiny. We have choices. We have the power to choose happiness or sorrow. Our lives are lead by our thoughts, and for this I am totally grateful.