I had the most encouraging comment from a reader named Pretzel this past week. Here’s an excerpt “…You are an inspiration to me & as I look at the approaching year, I have some plans to put to paper along with the how-to-do’s. I will think of you throughout my struggles & successes!” The heartfelt comment got me thinking about blogging, life and how to look at things. I concluded that many of us take life way too seriously. Myself included.
Until my burnout, I had a pretty good sense of humour. In fact, I was hilarious. Kidding. But I used to laugh a lot. Somewhere along the line, I stopped. And life wasn’t nearly as much fun.
I’m working hard to recreate “me” however. There was a television show from the mid-1970s called the Six Million Dollar Man. Lee Majors played a former astronaut who was seriously injured in a flight crash, rebuilt with bionic implants which gave him superhuman strength, speed and vision. The show was a hit on TV for four years. In a way, I see similarities to my life – there was a crash, then a rebuild. I don’t have $6 million or bionic implants, and I hope it doesn’t take four years, but I’m rebuilding from the ground up. It mostly feels good. …
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10 responses to “Do It Anyway ”
Thank you for sharing some of your experiences. It helps to be able to relate as I find it hard to speak my mind sometimes in situations where I have different opinions. You nailed the humor by the way. 😂
I think our culture (society and family) has conditioned us to believe we can’t have differing opinions and still get along. It’s probably why our world has become so polarized. Please speak your truth! It can be uncomfortable at first but people adapt. And if they don’t… they aren’t your people.
And thanks for the vote of confidence on the humor. Not every topic is funny but I’m going to try to keep it interesting.
Well now… this has me curious….
Stay tuned… maybe you can read the full story in my upcoming best-seller. 😂
Wonderful ♥️
Glad you enjoyed.
What an amazing gift for myself, and others, to be a witness to your journey. Some of your truths have hit close to home – to the point I have to stop reading and reassess my own thoughts. Thank you!
Your words make my heart sing! Thank you for being a part of my journey.❤️
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” Martin Luther King, Jr
I think this is our moment.