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Okay Days
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them. Lawrence Welk What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: Each day I wake up and notice how I feel. Every morning that state seems sort of random. Don’t get me wrong, there is some degree of continuity between one day and another.…
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Okay Struggle
There’s always got to be a struggle. Sure. What else is there? That’s what life is made of. I don’t know anything else, do you? I mean if there is, tell me about it. Van Morrison What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: When I was young, I remember that even the most simple moments of dealing…
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That’s Okay
I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross What I’m Hanging Hope On Today:It’s true. I’m not okay. My attention wanders seemingly at random a large percentage of the time. And I have at best a very shallow grasp of how the people around me may think, or feel, or even perceive…
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Okay to Engage
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: The vitality of life is only experienced in moments that remind us of the vital components of being alive. To really live we must remain continually engaged, not with the most abstract concerns we conjure up…
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Enjoy Dysfunction
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Ludwig Wittgenstein Why I Am Dysfunctional Today: Enjoyment is certainly a wonderful thing, but life presents such a variety of things for a reason. By things, I mean experiences. What value would life have if…
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Love IMHO
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G. K. Chesterton Why People Are Like That Today: What is love if it doesn’t distinguish between individuals? It seems to be a rare and precious experience. To generalize it into a rule…
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Okay Worry
God knows, there’s enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things. Edward Gorey What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: We are virtually ordered to control ourselves. Feelings arise naturally and automatically and we are fortunate to not have conscious control of that. If we are consciously responsible for that, we would miss big…
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Okay to Live
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: Being realistic isn’t realistic. Living up to people’s expectations very often means keeping our head down. Analytic thinking comes cheap. It’s the only way anyone can…
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Denial Dysfunction
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept. Bill Watterson Why I Am Dysfunctional Today: Denial is misunderstood. We think of it as if people actively and voluntarily resist truths that are otherwise readily available to them for understanding. This isn’t how reality or the human mind works, or can even work.…
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Okay to Trust Yourself
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: Every day is full of experience. Even the most stubbornly ignorant individual can’t get through the day without having picked up at least a little new information. They don’t recognize this because they don’t consciously think about…
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True Meaning IMHO
It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Anton Lavey Why People Are Like That Today: People seem little willing to grant true meaning to anything they learn. It doesn’t seem to matter if it’s something they were taught or something they learned from personal experience. They even deny the basis for anything being meaningful in…
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Okay to Hope
”Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops—at all. Emily Dickinson What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: Things change, they always do. I know at times this can seem threatening because it often appears well beyond our control. This…
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Painful Dysfunction
I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. Mariel Hemingway Why I Am Dysfunctional Today: Life is stress. Learning is the acquisition of methods to cope with stress. I myself gain these skills slowly. Like everybody else, I take in a situation and then feel like I know what this…
Category: Humble Opinion
In My Humble Opinion. A journal to vent about why people are like that and why all the stupid things they do are so obvious to me.
My Dysfunctions. A journal for chronicling my immeasurable fascinating dysfunctions.
It’s Gonna Be Okay. A journal to reassure myself when I’m overwhelmed by the creeping sense of impending disaster and the all-encompassing fears both specific and vague that colonize my mind, body, and soul.
“Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.” Hugh Prather
“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.” George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist, 1856-1950)