experiment day 23

Today
12:10 am

I'm so grateful for all your posts yesterday. seriously, they REALLY helped. thank you! thank you! thank you!

And while at the gym today, this one kept ringing thru my head...

2. Your 'yes' moment might be closer than you think. The best time to be 'open' is after a rejection. The hardest time to be 'open' is after a rejection... :)

So true. It's hard. You have to go against all instincts and stay open. It's not faith if you have to have evidence of it.

Thanks again.

elbow and send.

Comments

[cryssyer]

I'm grateful for the pain after rejection - means I still feel. Feeling is life. So, I am still alive. Goodness knows I shouldn't be :)

I am late to the party of gratefulness having been distracted by my divorce and the emotional effects on my son. I am grateful for the ability to say - I will not bow to the winds of change. I will embrace and employ that wind to fill my own sails. Gosh, how sappy!
Glad you are posting every day :)

[Upquark]

...there is a book by S.R. Donaldson wherein he writes of an ass of a man, Thomas. I won't bore you with the entire story, but suffice to say that at the end of the story, he has lost everything for the second time. His friends are as good as dead, his nemesis cannot be beaten by sheer force alone for if he does, Thomas will become the enemy he wishes to destroy. What does a man do when faced with certain defeat to demons real and ethereal? He asks a friend to laugh for him. His friend chokes out a laugh which then grows and becomes larger and clearer. The others in his company join in the spreading mirth of it all. And in the face of the undeniable power of love and laughter, the evil withers and dies.
This may sound cliche', but when nothing else is there and you desperately need something that is your own - that points to you as a person and a human being - think of something funny and laugh. Force it if you must... then laugh like a loon. Trust me, you will feel better. :) And most importantly of all, you will have restored your trust in yourself.

[The Domestic Goddess]

I'm grateful that I have a husband that is reasonable and we can split our time with the kids so we each get time to ourselves and do fun things on our own OR together OR with the kids. He understands my need for quiet time.

[qxjit]

I'm grateful for time spent with rarely seen friends. The all-too-shortness of it reminds me how special every person I get to know really is.

[tinkcrzy1972]

I'm grateful to be home from "vacation"...

[enjonel]

I missed a couple days...

I'm grateful there's night shifts... I hate getting up in the morning.

I'm grateful waves make such a delicious sound when they roll onto the beach. It is so relaxing.

I'm grateful birds sing.

I'm grateful spring comes after winter.

I'm grateful for coke (the real thing), not pepsi.

I'm grateful Indiana Jones will be in a theater near me again soon.

[Marly]

I am grateful for the comics page and the "Dear Abby" column in my newspaper. The first makes me laugh and the second makes me realize that I am grateful that I don't have life bad enough to have to write in for advice. The "A" section of the paper often scares me silly.....I don't go there if I can help it....hahaha.

[KatieKatie]

Awesome post!
I was not here that day - was in Michigan on a trip.

I'm grateful for trips.