When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with it's twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow, You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.
...Edgar A. Guest
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Live each day as if it were your last...because tomorrow?
It might be.
Shoot Phil I saw the title and thought you were bailing.
I tired so many time to quit on my own. Normal folks have no concept of the recovery world. But even though I was failing I was better off then when I was just using . Bob.
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Work like you don't need the money
Love like you've never been hurt, and
dance like no one is watching.
The same thought crossed my mind, too, Bob. Thought Phil was leaving. Glad to know you're not!!!!!
Bob, I don't assume to know what it is like to be alcoholic myself. I can assure you, however, that it can take it's toll on those around him/her. We take "hits" financially, emotionally, and sometimes physically. Those we love who abuse cannot understand why our reactions to behavior/words under the influence (that includes those times when they have not drank) is as it is. We, have no idea, that the disease is "bringing us down" as well. I guess I would have to consider myself to be abnormal for I had to enter into the recovery world to learn how to cope with another's problem. Had read the poem long ago. Yet after seeing it here it had meaning. It is the summation of how I have survived/am surviving 'it' Thanks to you and the many shares, even though I don't drink, that little seed of never giving up has been planted and I have grown in ways and am reaping the benefits. Wanda
Thank God Phils not quitting! What would I do without his cute ass pictures!!!!! As far as the above goes....."and the debts are high".....As Joni said in Deans's xmas post......can I give it away!!!!!!!! Hee hee...Lani
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
Shoot Phil I saw the title and thought you were bailing.
I tired so many time to quit on my own. Normal folks have no concept of the recovery world. But even though I was failing I was better off then when I was just using . Bob.
Those normal folks are fricken annoying. Especially the way they refuse to finish their drinks and how they make a sixpack last two weeks. I don't really get that.
I don't really get that. 