Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
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"Relationships are cool and stuff - but have you tried garlic bread?”
hug, margaret! the wisdom isn’t about me. the wisdom is for all of us. these little quotes are super useful and wise :).
some of them funny, some of them deep. i even read some of them to my elderly LOs, who enjoy them too.
my favorite so far:
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“The secret is…to stop caring what people think of you, and start caring about what you think. Make your opinion of you more important than anyone else’s.”
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"Learn from your past…then pack your stuff and get out of there.”
“It is not OK to stay somewhere you’re not happy, valued or appreciated.”
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"Giving someone toxic a second chance is like reheating McDonald’s.”
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"Somebody is mad at you right now because you picked peace over drama and distance over disrespect.”
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"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."
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“Stay positive. Work hard. And make it happen."
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
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“Sometimes I just don’t like people…They make me wanna say bad words.”
😍 “Love yourself as much as you want to be loved.”
“I have selective hearing. I’m sorry, you were not selected.”
“Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to tell people how you feel. You might be too weak to raise your middle finger.”
“Believe in what you want so much that it has no choice but to materialize.”
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“I didn’t know you had the authority to judge me. Is God hiring?”
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“The secret is…to stop caring what people think of you, and start caring about what you think. Make your opinion of you more important than anyone else’s.”
“The human body has 7 trillion nerves. And some people manage to get on every single one of mine.”
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“This is how you love yourself:
Instead of begging for the pain to go away, you choose to hear what your pain is begging of you.”
My life has been so utterly consumed by all the POA, medical POA issues with Mom is MC, stuff with the estate, now G&C with an estate inventory due in a few weeks, sold 2 properties long distance, etc, etc, that what is left is given fully to my 2 grandkids and adult daughter who live with me - my joy is found in the Gkids. hard to be the axis that my family and parents' lives revolve on.
Did I mention the pain and inability to sleep? The stress?
I'll be happy to land in a hospital bed for a night or two and be knocked out to sleep and rest. And I look forward to recovering and regaining my mobility and lost lower limb strength.
I know that growing older is not for the faint of heart, but seriously?
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“I QUIT! Your greatest fear should not be fear of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
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“Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.”
“That moment, when you think you don’t have time to take care of yourself, is the exact moment you have to take care of yourself.”
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“If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow. Imagine what speaking kindly to yourself can do.”
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“I do a thing called ‘what I want.’”
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“If it costs you your peace of mind, you’ve overpaid.”
“This looks like a ‘no, thanks’ to me.”
“A wise woman once said, “no” and lived happily ever after.”
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“Stop shrinking to fit places you’ve outgrown.”
Amazon boot: $29 - $49, then up from there.
It happens. The best way not to fall again is:
Discover the real reason.
Slow way down, no, slow way way down.
The automatic things we could usually do without thinking about how (like tying our shoes), later require thought and attention.
There was nothing there when I tripped and fell, breaking my fibula tip. (broken ankle).
A week later, my collarbone hurt-it was a broken collarbone.
I was in too much of a rush that time.
Slowed way way down after the second fall, with the second broken ankle
2013 ad 2015 if I recall correctly.
It really hurts! Not ever worth going through that again.
I never appreciated how good I had it.
Note to self: Self, don't fall again.
But that was back in my child care days and SIL was starting back to work after mat leave so I had to figure out how to care for a baby (only 6 months mat leave then) and a two year old as well as managing sister's household, all with limited ability to carry things. I threw stuff a lot 🤣.