“You either get BITTER or you get BETTER.
It’s that simple.
You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down.
THE CHOICE does not belong to fate, it BELONGS TO YOU.” – Josh Shipp
A friend posted this on FB today. So applicable to us - even if Josh Shipp aims his work at teens and twenties!
Too true. And surely in our heads we're still in our twenties, if not our teens!
Are you that old??????????
Some days I feel really grown up - but not many - I'm glad to say!
If I feel like that I turn and run! Don't want to do adult...
Didn't say I did it very often!
Somehow I can always manage to get the kids to say "oh mother!" Great innit!😉
@ DL
Yup - been there too! Though it is the older one who does the "Oh MOTHER!" line - and SHE has NO room to talk!
I've managed to get them to say it simultaneously even though they're 11,000 miles and 12 hours apart!
Quite proud of that one! 👍
That IS impressive!
WOW! you don't mean I've impressed the guru!
Mind you, technology helped - a little!
My teen just told me that she didn't see many advantages to turning 18 and being an adult. "She is excited to vote, can buy lottery tickets and get a tattoo but she's now responsible for her medical decisions and any financial trouble she gets in to !" We then had a conversation about tattoos and finances! What a day - and it's just started...
Completely agree. I have learnt so much from compassion to appreciating true friendship and dozens of other things. There are always positive things to come out of any situation - my belief anyway.
Sadly I think I reached my peak at three. 
A child prodigy then!
Actually, I think so. 
But it's been downhill ever since!
Never truer words have been spoken. With positive mental attitude and the many friends on here, who can be bitter?
Thanks for all those uplifting comments, I have been feeling great over the last few weeks.....making me rather complacent!!!!!! BIG MISTAKE.....Over the last two weeks I have done so much and today I feel dreadful and until reading your comments was feeling rather sorry for myself..........however on reflection ....it's my own fault ...I am not BITTER and I WILL get BETTER.
I am so grateful to have found this site, the information and encouragement given is a 'Guiding Light in the Darkness'
BLESSINGS
JayBoy.
Yeah, I had what felt like really normal day yesterday, driving myself to appts & errands. Then had a bad night - my good eye optic nerve pain. So scary. Better today, almost upped pred to 80 on my own reconnaissance. Tried celebrex instead, helped.
Careful with Celebrex and high dose steroids - NSAIDs and pred is not a good mix.
I know. At a loss though. Know anyway to protect tummy from celebrex?
You are on a PPI (omeprazole or the like) or ranitidine (Zantac) I assume? Always take it with plenty of food. But really - it isn't a drug I'd like to mix with pred. It has a black box warning all of its own for cardiovascular side effects and gastric bleeding.
I am better!
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