LJ Idol Season 7 Week 16 - Be Like a Bird

[walkertxkitty]

o/` " Be like a bird, who, halting in her flight
On a limb too slight, feels it give way beneath her;
Yet sings, sings, knowing she has wings;
Yet sings, sings, knowing she has wings. o/`

-- "Be Like a Bird" performed by Libana, adapted from the poem by Victor Hugo

Comments

[tayryn]

I am not my disease.

and THAT, is the lesson i am learning as well.

It's powerful food for thought.

yes, it is.

and thank you for making me think it!!

[walkertxkitty]

As I said, the Spoon Theory used to be my creed but, after conversation with a friend who suffers from depression and a lack of time, it seemed rather self centered and selfish.

I'm trying to think more about the things I can do instead of the things I cannot so that I don't become those things.

[spirited_grace]

Beautiful post. My years of lay ministry and working as a gerontologist offer up a plethora of stories of people being treated as their disease as well as people identifying with being their disease. Well written entry.

[walkertxkitty]

I admit I fall into that trap a little too often, thinking about all the things I can't do or the things I can't do the way others do or the things I used to do but 'can't'.

Now, I'm trying to find ways to do those things which will make them fun again and to concentrate on the things I can do so that I don't become my disease or think of myself in terms of my medical problems.

It's not easy, but I'm working on it.

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I really appreciate it a lot.

[just_the_ash]

I see what you mean -- my colleague Eva, who is perfectly abled as far as she's ever told me, arranges her life around the band concerts, school plays, and whatnot of her teenaged kids. She chooses to do this, but it doesn't mean she doesn't still have an overriding consideration that affects her daily planning.

[walkertxkitty]

It's something which was helpful for a while but has become a crutch as I relied on it too much. It's easy to say you can't do something because of your ills, but it's more productive to find out what you can do within your limitations. That's something a lot of fibro folk just don't emphasize enough.

I'm trying.

[worldofcraimar]

Well fuckin' written, ye.

May have to be re-linkin' this, ye ken?

Thank ye.

-Craimar-

[walkertxkitty]

Sure can!

[basric]

Very nicely written. Well done.

[walkertxkitty]

Thanks. I had no idea what I was going to do until this conversation occurred.

It's something I'm working on --- I need to write out my own personal manifesto and stop worrying so much about the things I can't do, can no longer do and find ways to do them or find new things to be doing.