Re: [mylifeismine] Re: Success Inc.



We don't want to compare tragedies. Saying to one person my life's worse then your's' does'nt get us anywhere. To each person his or her own tragedy is the worst no matter how trivial it may seem to another who has sufferred far worse. We must all respect each others sorrows.
 
 Yes suddenly just as you are doing well, are upbeat on a good path something suddenly happens to drag you back to the wretched memories of the past. And we feel discouraged. At such times it is best to accept that feeling and that memory quietly and gracefully. At this point in  life all of us must hold our heads high with pride and be able to say "yes!! I survived that! Life tried to shoot me down (with an abusive spouse, drugs, rape, no money, loneliness ) and I overcame it! I stand tall with all my battle scars and I can look anyone in the eye and say yes! I went through that and came out alive, as pure as gold!"
 
 None of us need be depressed or ashamed at what we went through. We survived and thats what matters. I wish that instead of looking back at past tragedies with pain and grief (no matter how bad they were) we could look back with a calm acceptance and a sense of pride at having handled so much. Hold no gruges against people who have treated you very badly - no matter how badly. We really would have happier people on this planet.
 
 I hope I am not sounding too glib or superficial. My sincere feeling is that many people here in this group who have been abused need to realise that despite what they have been through they are amazing people with enormous potential. They are funny and warm and humurous and intelligent. And they can live each day with immense happiness and joy. Does'nt matter how bad another person was to you. There is something wrong with that person, not you!
 
Warm Regards to all
Sangita

--- On Sun, 5/7/09, Kim Hillier <kanga4282@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

From: Kim Hillier <kanga4282@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [mylifeismine] Re: Success Inc.
To: mylifeismine@yahoogroups.com.au
Date: Sunday, 5 July, 2009, 4:49 PM

my list of tragedies is so much longer than that. but i dont let them rule my life they just bite me at times. a noise a smell many things can put you back there where you dont want to be.I do have many good memories though also

From: perry enriquez <perryenriquez@ yahoo.com>
To: mylifeismine@ yahoogroups. com.au
Sent: Sunday, 5 July, 2009 8:04:29 PM
Subject: [mylifeismine] Re: Success Inc.

Dear Kim,

You say I've been living under a rock watching but never experiencing life?

Let me indulge you then. Here is my litany of tragedies:

I could have DIED in 1970 (when I was 10) when a playmate shot me through the mouth with an air rifle. My front tooth shattered. BUT it was that tooth that saved my life.

My best friend passed away in 2002 - not from suicide - but a stroke.. He was 42.

I have pointed a kitchen knife at my own heart when I found out my wife had an affair. (Obviously the knife never went in!)

My biological father was never around when I needed him. BUT in 2002 I visited him - as he had prostate cancer. It was HE (not I) who cried. He passed away soon after.

My first serious girlfriend broke up with me in 1980 just before the FINAL quarter of our graduation year! She moved to Canada and married my high school classmate!

Have I ever gone hungry and without any money to buy lunch for that day? Yes. Have I ever been drunk? Yes. Have I smoked a joint? Yes. Have I taken any prohibited drug? No. Have I visited a prostitute? Guess.

My point? All the above are my "bad" memories. I say now: SO WHAT? I look back with a smirk and a toss on my head - and like Clint Eastwood say, "Go ahead, punk, make my day!"

This ONCE I have indulged you with negativity. When you're ready to MOVE FORWARD, I'll indulge you with the GOOD memories.

Perry

--- In mylifeismine@ yahoogroups. com.au, Kim Hillier <kanga4282@. ..> wrote:
>
> perry to me you sound as though you have lived under a rock watching but never experiencing life.I start my life over every day.i did let go but my memories bite me all the time.that doesnt mean that im always miserable though.On friday my last day of work i had a workmate who was craving drugs hold a knife to my throat and i did respond not react i just told him to go ahead and do it.You have not walked in my footprints or been inside my head so do me a favour dont make out that you have


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