Adaptable Humans

I was sitting at a booth in a diner my husband and I visited later today and I couldn't help notice how all of the people around me seem to be going about their day as if nothing had happened just days ago. You see a small community only a few miles from where we live was hit by a tragic disaster.  Four people were killed and two were injured when a gunman went on a rampage.. By the end of the day police and SWATT teams had him surrounded in an abandoned building all throughout the night and into the morning.

 At around 8 am the following day they stormed the building where he was waiting for them.  He opened fire upon them taking out a K-9 unit which in turn the SWATT team ended up killing him.. The whole community was in shock because we were the many who "never believe it would happen in such a small town." The diner we were at was just down the road where the shooting had taken place a few days ago and I couldn't help think how adaptable the human body is, how we go about our business once the tragedy comes to a conclusion and although it never escapes our mind we force ourselves to live our lives no matter what.

A FRESH START

As we get older we are forced to realize that our lives are forever changing. Our children grow up and leave the nest, our friendships may become strained or non exsistant, and we are left with a certain void that cannot be filled. We often long to have the time back but now we can't. It is just you and your soulmate to face the rest of the years together. I have never been out of New York State in my whole 43 yrs of my life and now I have the opportunity to leave and venture out and see the world. I am excited but a little scared because I won't have that security of knowing my surroundings but I know as long as I have my husband and my faith it will be a tremendous journey..

Am I A Pessimist Due To Depression?

They say that a Pessimist is someone who will always see the negativity in life. I guess I fit in that category because I cannot see the positive in anything in my life. I want to I try to but when you are constantly let down in your life it is hard to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. Pessimism is related to depression and as much as I try not to be so negative all the time it is just there and I don't know how to get rid of it. I come from a life where I never got to see the world the way I wanted to.

My life is what I have made it and I blame myself to a certain extent but I also blame my relationships with lovers, friends, and even family. I need constant reassurance that everything is going to be ok and sometimes that can be hard for whomever may be in my presence at the time. I wish I was an independent woman, one who don't have to rely on others. But I do. I don't have a license so I have to rely on others to take me places.

I have never been out of the state I was born in because I was married young and had a child when I was a teenager. Since then I have been nothing but a mother and a wife and I don't have much experience in the outside world. I have never ridden a transit bus for fear I won't get off at the right stop. How does one overcome such obstacles when there is so much negativity that it consumes them?

Daily Blues

For all of us Depression suffereres, feeling down can come at anytime. Today I am feeling that. It is a cold gloomy day outside and it makes me want to crawl back into bed...

Your atmosphere around you can acerbate the depression.. From the weather to your home life to your overall existance weighs heavy on a person who suffers from depression... It can get very hard to cope with life in general..

People say to just rise above it and make the best of it. Those people have no clue how hard those words can be to someone who can't value their life enough to be able to do that...

 What someone with depression really needs is to surround themselves with others who support them and encourage them and to just be there to hold a conversation with. That is all we ask is to help us out when we are having trouble helping ourselves.....

Life Is Too Short To Take It For Granted

What would you do if you received the news that you only had one day to live? How would you spend that day? Would you surround yourself with your loved ones and try to get all the memories you can before its gone.

Life is too short to take it for granted. You should never waste your day doing something that is not going to make a memory for your loved ones, something they can remember you by when you are no longer with them.

Make sure you always tell your loved ones how important they are to you and how much you love them everyday.Always keep your promises and never let them down.  For noone knows when their time is up and they are no longer there.

Life is too short live each day as if it were your last....

Beyonce Lip Synching

Do we really I mean really care whether or not Beyonce lip synched the National Anthem?
They are saying she wasn't feeling well. What if she had sang while being sick then would the topic be how horrible she sounded? Come on people there are more important things in this world to care about. How sad our society has become when we only care about criticizing someone who after all is human just like we are.

How Cold Is It???

I live in Upstate New York and it is now 13 degrees out. I can remember when I was a kid it didn't matter what the temperature was outside I was out there from sun up to sun down only stopping to eat.. I lived in the era where we thought sliding downhill on plastic was faster than our sleds and when our gloves got wet and cold my twin brothers and I used to wear extra pairs of socks for gloves til ours dried. There was no stopping our adventures into the wooded area in the Adirondack Mountains.

Isn't it funny how the older you get the less tolerable you become to the changes in the season. Now I am at that age where when if it's hot it's Too Hot and if it's cold it's Too Cold. Where can you go to live in this beautiful world God has created for us where you can have a happy medium?