Another Day Of Life

I think everyone has things that are good and bad that comes to mind when they think of themselves.  For the most part we are all our own harshest critics.  I know I am mine.  Quite often I can much more easily point our the areas of myself that I don’t like about myself much more easily than being able to point out the things I do like.  Being able to balance them both can be the biggest challenge of all.

So how do you balance those?  When times are good, and things are going will in your family life, your work life, and financially it can be very easy to not dwell on the bad, but when things are tough it can be very hard to take the time to focus on those things that are good.  So one of the secrets?  Sometimes it’s ok to feel bad for yourself.  I know I do.  It only become a problem when you let it go too far.  I know I tend to do that. 

My family has gone through a very rough time over the last few years.  While sitting here thinking about it overall I thing it has gotten better in many ways there are also many areas that I still find myself being both saddened and frustrated with.  The same goes for my wife.  Then you add in the fact we are both struggling with those feelings of anger, and frustration mixed with some depression and you have an even harder struggle.  None of us are alone in this, and everyone who says that they never feel this way are liars.  It’s true.

The world is in turmoil.  And the harder that turmoil the harder it is for anyone to start feeling better.  The best way I do it?  I try to take some time to look at pictures of my children, and the fun times, and keep the faith that sometime, in soem way they will return.

How do you deal with it?

~ADOL