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"My Life Sucks"
"My life sucks" that is what was so poetically written as graffiti on the bathroom wall of the busy Gas station/Truck stop in Barstow on our way to Dumont last week.
"My life sucks" there those words stood in red marker for the world to see.
I can only imagine what poor, tortured life this person was living that would lead them to write those words as a plea for someone to help them or maybe even just as a way to express what they know in their hearts but can't quite express out loud yet.
"My life sucks." Right under it, in different colored ink and writing it said, "So change it."
As I was sitting on that toilet reading the many messages left by others before me fighting the urge to add my own, those two little sentences stuck in my mind like an earworm.
"My life sucks."
"So change it."
I could hear them over and over and over in my mind the rest of the trip and it took me back to a time when my life DID in fact suck.
Until I decided to do something about it.
It really wasn't that hard. In fact, the hardest part was just taking that first step. The second hardest part is watching as people around me I once thought of as my best friends react to the changes I made in my life.
So does your life suck? Then CHANGE IT! It's easy. Just change it! Get rid of the negativity in your life including your attitude. And CHANGE IT!
There will be some positive reactions. But more than likely there will just be negative ones and that's OK! After all, birds of a feather flock together right? So more than likely the people that have become your best friends along the way are leading the same tortured lives as you wether it be alcohol, abusive spouse, abusive boss, shitty friendships, or your own shitty attitude. GET RID OF IT!
Your true friends will follow. The ones that are your friends only because they are exactly like you but have no desire to change... well, they will eventually turn on you as you gradually make those positive changes.
Don't be upset.
It's nothing personal.
It just that you will no longer have anything in common with them. And that's OK. In fact, that's the point, right?
Eventually you will notice that positive people will start to gravitate towards you. After all, birds of a feather flock together, right?
Listen, I'm not here to make light of anyones troubles, ok? And I know that we all have different levels of "shitty lives" from having a shitty job, or kids that push us around, or friends that take advantage of us, or 20 pounds we'd like to lose, or a job that pays peanuts, or we're alcoholics or drug addicts, WHATEVER!
I'm just saying if your life sucks, you have the power to CHANGE IT. So do it. When's a better time than 2008, right?
Sit back, and enjoy your new life. and realize that leading a tortured life takes way MORE effort than leading a happy one.
Then you can say, "My life sucks, so I changed it"
Happy New Year everyone!
~Twinkie
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Thank you for your comment Tahany!
I've eaten so many sweets the past few weeks, so I can relate. I keep saying "NO" in my mind but my tummy always answers with a resounding YES.
ah well! LOL those excess pounds will have to wait until I'm ready to make that change for 2008!
That's what I've been saying Twinkie but you say it more dramatically, like a slap on the face and yelling ,"WAKE UP"!!
I guess at some point in time, everyone's life sucked eh? I know mine did until I had my last accident in 1994. Well, it really didn't suck that bad but someone up above was trying to send me a message that I needed to change my lifestyle......and that's why I had my motorcycle accident.
During those 6 months of rehabilitation and looking out my livingroom window while the world was passing me by, I figured I had another opportunity in life to be a better person. So I started thinking more positive and figured out that everything happens for a reason. If it's a good thing, that's GREAT but if it's something bad, than we should evaluate our lives and figure out what lead to that bad thing happening. What could we had done to prevent it from happening. I know that we all make mistakes and we all learn from our mistakes........at least we should learn from them. Some of us never do and keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
But my way of thinking is........... It is better to keep one step ahead by learning from someone else's mistakes so that you won't make those same mistakes yourself. If you see someone tripping over something, watch what they are tripping over and make sure you take a different path to avoid getting tripped up yourself.
If you want to change for the best but don't know where to start, contact someone who you think can help you by leading you in the right direction. Remember it is easier to go with the flow but if you really want to acheive something, you have to work for it and let me tell you, it feels a lot better when you earn something than when it is given to you.
Oh by the way Twinkie, "My life sucked and I changed it".
Looking for better and more positive things in the new year!!
I really does. And it's ok to be scared to "take the plunge" but damn... once you do you realize how much easier it is to make wise choices in the long run.
I mean, sure, at the very moment you're making it it's easier to jump into whatever temptation it is you're succumbing to. But then the repercussions are longer and they usually lead to more harm than good.
But if you take the time to take a deep breath and just DARE TO SAY NO to whatever the temptation is, then aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. SWEET SWEET life!