We live in a world where criticism is all too common and praise is hard to come by. I am guilty of criticizing freely and bluntly. I do, however, also try to give credit where it's due and to praise or compliment what I think is worthy. I just don't do it often enough. Appreciation … Continue reading Quick to Criticize, Slow to Praise
Ever get blitz attacked by unwelcome memories? Ever find yourself perfectly content, enjoying your morning, doing your thing but then suddenly something - a phrase, a smell, an article on the web - reminds you of an event you have done your best to put behind you and you are suddenly overwhelmed by a deluge … Continue reading Unwelcome Memories
Recently, I've been spending a lot of time feeling lonely and alone. This, in turn, makes me feel like a failure, someone who was easily forgotten and possibly replaced, someone with no prospects of a normal life, someone who will never amount to anything, someone who will die alone and unloved. I miss being in … Continue reading Lonely and Alone
A bout of depression has struck me once more. I feel incoherent and irrational today. I keep trying to go back in time and make sense of things. I keep on trying to figure it out - where did I make my first mistake and when did I make my last one? Sometimes, I regret … Continue reading Incoherent and Irrational
Someone told me recently that this is an year for renewal. With renewal comes an inevitable ending of some sort or the other. Some of us have lost everything we thought defined us. Some of us had something promising come crashing down around us. Some of us found success in something we never imagine we … Continue reading Tough Pill To Swallow
It has been so long since I posted here. I'm sorry for that, but I dislike writing things I don't truly mean and am not actually feeling in that moment. Hence, the long sabbatical. You see, I had achieved a modicum of neutral stability, even ranging to slight happiness at times. I was cruising through … Continue reading It has been a while…
There are so many stories from so many people about their Uphill Climb. I decided I would talk about mine today. I was born into a lower middle class family of four -I have a mother, father and younger sister. We moved a lot, usually on the whim of my father, from continent to continent, … Continue reading Uphill Climb
To be told you are precious, and wanted, and loved, and beautiful and amazing...that is the most rewarding experience in the world. You can love someone and have them love you and still not have enough. I know what that is like. That is the hell I am living through today. When a man truly … Continue reading Sick from Love
I have depression. It's like an amazingly persistent, unforgiving, chronic flu. I have bouts of depression. I go through the day never knowing exactly When it will get me. Some blessed days it never does. And then others the fist of this horrid foe slams into me with the force of a hammer, crushing me … Continue reading Bouts of Depression
As a child, did you ever have the bright idea of trying to balance on a seesaw with no support and no backing? And you just totter towards whatever direction keeps you standing without a thought for the consequences? Well that is where I am now. Sometimes it seems as though I can fly and … Continue reading Day 60
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