There are good times and bad right?

[Deleted]

And you don't remember the good stuff when you are smack dab in the middle of the bad. This is how life goes am I right? Gimpy or AB.

So for the first time in about a year or so things have gone red line bad. Its hit me like a ton of bricks. But I have had a change of attitude in the past year and I'm taking it all in stride. I almost expect to hit a wall any second. I said something today that I have never said and it slipped out. One of those straight outta the mouth deals.

"What a fucking life."


What do you think of that? Is it defeat or acceptance?

[Ouch]

I've plummeted into an Abyss or two that life just tosses at ya', often never at a 'convenient' time...

...even just recently, I was even describing to someone in a conversation how I had been 'feeling good' for a recent period of time, and then one day it just seemed like instantly I 'crashed into a brick wall'...that was just one bad day...sometimes bad days can turn into bad weeks, months and occasionally (or sometimes more frequently...) bad years.

...you assess yourself that you're 'taking it all in stride'...but you do indeed acknowledge there is a problem...to me that seems to be clear-cut acceptance. Something's tough, but you're dealing with it however you are.

Something like: "What a fucking life.", just sounds like you're taking an honest assessment of yourself...and it's a fairly vague term, it can really come to encapsulate a lot of meanings...positive and negative, and perhaps many places in between...

...if you're still here (living, posting on Paradevo, etc.), I don't think you've flown the white flag yet.

[Pony]

Canuck, hang in there, man. I say that kind of stuff every time something stupid happens, and that's, at least, a few times a day. We've been 'blessed' with a crazy set of circumstances. We don't know each other well, but we're brothers stuck in the same prison. "What a fucking life!" sounds appropriate to me.

[Deleted]

Nah it wasn't giving up it was more like " What a fucking life!" And it will be here tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day.

I have plans that I really want to get started on but I have to wait until I sell my place and get some freedom from everything I know. But here I am having my life put on hold that has nothing to do with my wheelchair. But everything to do with my bad times is purely the chair.......frustration.

[Ouch]

Ah, I understand a least a little of what you mean...

...I too have had a lot of things I've wanted to move on with, but certain circumstances have and are keeping me in a holding pattern of sorts as well...but it looks like I'm at the end of that tunnel, and you'll be there eventually...just keep your eyes on the light even in the darkness of the tunnel.

[laurasweetou]

How about calling it just a good old fashion vent? Irish luck to you friend.

[Phil]

Jul 29, 2008 0:44:22 GMT -5 Ouch said:

Ah, I understand a least a little of what you mean...

...I too have had a lot of things I've wanted to move on with, but certain circumstances have and are keeping me in a holding pattern of sorts as well...but it looks like I'm at the end of that tunnel, and you'll be there eventually...just keep your eyes on the light even in the darkness of the tunnel.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train about to run your ass over. ;D

[yoell]

OK, we all have times that are no fun at all, whether wheelchair bound or not. I have a bad habit of making this quip; "Living the dream, that turned into a nightmare". I know it is not the best, but we all have times that we can seem to get past. But, we all get by and have our good times. We just have to keep plugging along.

[wheelie37]

Bad times are part of life, disabled or not.

They are also a time for your family and real friends to support you, as I am sure a worthy person would do for them if needed.