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Prayers Ross. Don't get down. It only burrows you farther in. Also don't worry is progress is slow. Progress is a slow process. Were here for you bro. SMOKE
 
I will keep you in my prayers. I've been down that road, too, so hand in there. You are worth it!!
 
Trying to understand ourselves is a battle all of has, or will, face in our lifetime.
Life is kinda like golf, you don't always get penalized for a bad shot, it's how you recover from it that makes a difference. IMO
Smoke and prayers from Boise, good luck.

Dick
 
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Thank you all - seeing your responses has really brightened my day. Your responses are just amazing - I don't know how to describe my feelings except to say that I haven't felt this moved in a personal way in years.


I'm going to try things one day at a time. Small steps.
 
Civilization is a cooperative enterprise.
If we don't stick together, it will all fall apart.​

We go through life one second at a time. Just bounce into that next second and see how it feels! :D
 
Kazeryu said:
Thank you all - seeing your responses has really brightened my day. Your responses are just amazing - I don't know how to describe my feelings except to say that I haven't felt this moved in a personal way in years.


I'm going to try things one day at a time. Small steps.
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That's the key Ross. Small steps and patience. When i spent 5 years in a hospital bed following a skiing accident and a divorce, I had a crisis after the first nine months. Progress was almost too slow to measure and I felt I could not bear the solitude and isolation. But things are always changing, and sometimes the key to seeing better days is just being there when it happens. I can express it no better than my favorite mystic, Kahlil Gibran. His words were a help to me during my own crisis and they are offered here in the hope that you may find comfort in them as well.


Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be?

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."

But I say unto you, they are inseparable.

Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.

When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.


From "The Prophet", by Kahlil Gibran
 
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