buck up, little buckaroo
Thanks again, everyone, for your comments on the last post. I do appreciate it.
My friend/twin Zoe passed along the cheer-up thing her mother did, which was to say "Buck up, little buckaroo," which I've used to good effect on numerous squishy, emotional boyfriends.
I'm doing this 30 day chronic illness blogging thing on my sick Tumblr, and today was about "inspirational" quotes. I put that in quotes because nothing helps all the time forever. You need different stuff for different days. Sometimes certain things will piss me off rather than cheer me.
This line isn’t always helpful for me, but it has been sometimes:
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
I don’t know where it came from, and it doesn’t work well when I’m at the really high end of the pain scale, but you know. Also, I wouldn’t go shoving this one in other people’s faces or try to force someone else to relate to it.
The song How Can I Keep From Singing, is also helpful for me. I don’t relate to the religious aspects of it, but it’s a calming, soothing thing for me to sing, and I feel especially strongly about this line:
"All things are mine since I am loved."
Constantly telling yourself that someone else has it worse isn’t great, it doesn’t mean your situation doesn’t suck. However, interacting with so many people whose families are just so uncaring and awful makes me feel very lucky that I am so loved.
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." -GK Chesterton
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself." -Robert Frost
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." -Edward Everett Hale
Also, I fucking love this song (Roots Radicals by Rancid). I hadn't heard it since high school and forgot how much I liked it.
Also, I NEED this dress.
My friend/twin Zoe passed along the cheer-up thing her mother did, which was to say "Buck up, little buckaroo," which I've used to good effect on numerous squishy, emotional boyfriends.
I'm doing this 30 day chronic illness blogging thing on my sick Tumblr, and today was about "inspirational" quotes. I put that in quotes because nothing helps all the time forever. You need different stuff for different days. Sometimes certain things will piss me off rather than cheer me.
This line isn’t always helpful for me, but it has been sometimes:
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
I don’t know where it came from, and it doesn’t work well when I’m at the really high end of the pain scale, but you know. Also, I wouldn’t go shoving this one in other people’s faces or try to force someone else to relate to it.
The song How Can I Keep From Singing, is also helpful for me. I don’t relate to the religious aspects of it, but it’s a calming, soothing thing for me to sing, and I feel especially strongly about this line:
"All things are mine since I am loved."
Constantly telling yourself that someone else has it worse isn’t great, it doesn’t mean your situation doesn’t suck. However, interacting with so many people whose families are just so uncaring and awful makes me feel very lucky that I am so loved.
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." -GK Chesterton
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself." -Robert Frost
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." -Edward Everett Hale
Also, I fucking love this song (Roots Radicals by Rancid). I hadn't heard it since high school and forgot how much I liked it.
Click to viewAlso, I NEED this dress.