How Appropriate...

Considering the subject matter of my post from yesterday, I found one of my emails rather appropriate... all things considered :-)

Never take someone for granted

Hold every person close to your heart

because you might wake up one day

and realize that you've lost a diamond

while you were too busy collecting stones

To put it bluntly, I'm getting rid of the stones in my life. After all, all that stones do is weigh you down. They add no value and there is precious little point to having them around. Trust me - it sounds more harsh than it's meant to.

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Some of you may have realised that the title of yesterday's blog is a line from a song. Well, I was listening to one of my favourite CD's last night and there's a line from a beautiful song (which I absolutely love), which goes like this:

"There's always some reason to feel not good enough"

I'm sure that we've all been there in our time and I know that I've been feeling it a lot lately. I guess the trick is to look beyond the sense of failure and find all the things that you're good at, that you've achieved or that you love. List them if necessary. However, if you're going to give in to the feeling so wonderfully expressed above... make it one night and make it a doozy!!

That's Just Who I Am This Week...

It's been an interesting few weeks and although life is heading back towards normal (huh! "normal"), it's still taking a while for me to sort some stuff out in my head. I'm full of things that I want to write, but the problem with a blog is that sometimes you can't write what's in your head because you never know who will assume it's about them. So... ultimately, it's simply safer not to put it out there. Especially if you're still hurt, angry, frustrated or confused when you're writing.

Doesn't mean that it's not written down - after all, it's so cathartic to get it out onto 'paper' - all it means is that some stuff can't be posted. Of course, this creates the impression that I'm not writing... well - I promise to post something "real" soon.

A Life Full of Changes...

It's been almost a month since I've last posted. Some may say that this is because I've lost interest in blogging, but this simply isn't true. The truth is, it's been a really strange month all round and there hasn't really been time for just sitting down and writing. I've been dealing with some changes at home and I have to admit that it was a lot easier than most people would have thought. Then there have been some busy weeks where I was working up to 3 jobs a day and then managed to get it down to only 2 and finally... 1 per day. Hee hee. It's not really so bad... just a bit busy.

Over the next few months, my life is going to be extremely hectic. I have 3 big functions coming up and I have to confess, I'm really enjoying the challenge. I only hope that I can get it all running smoothly on track.

One of these functions is a task that I've appointed for myself. It's a fundraising project for a cause close to my heart - and in order to document it, I've started a blog where I can talk about it to my hearts content. You can take a look at it here...

http://shackleton1722.blogspot.com/

Anyway, until next time - which will be soon... I promise,

Me