The concept of enough hasn’t been part of my life for very long. By not long, I mean, I’ve toyed with the idea, even embraced
How long, I wonder, how much time in this life, have I forfeited? Just a few minutes here and there, but has it been hours? Days? Even years now, that I gave to nothingness?
Emotions are powerful. While they sometimes seem beyond our control, as we begin to gain a greater awareness of our emotions, the events that lead to them, the thought process that is involved with them and the way they are elicited, we can begin to make changes to our environment and the way we think which will help us alter the automatic response that is associated with our emotional experience. While many emotional responses are a learned response from past experiences, we can change our learned response to be more inline with what we would like our emotions to be.
The problem with self-esteem is that, when talking about it, it has been based far too much on variables we either can’t control or which don’t truly have any impact on who or how valuable we are.
Your diagnosis is not a prison sentence. It does not mean that you have to suffer for the rest of your life. The greatest gift of a diagnosis is in giving you information and allowing you to learn about yourself, what skills you need to develop and some personal struggles you will need to overcome. Take advantage of this gift and work, because it will be hard work, to overcome the struggles a diagnosis helps you to identify.
Your life is beautiful and unique. It will never look like the lives of those around you. There will always be elements of your life that stand out and for which you stand apart from others. Stop comparing, but rather choose to celebrate these differences.
If you truly have no regrets than you have not grown. No regrets means that you are no wiser today than you were 1, 5 or 10 years ago. How sad it would be to live a life where you denied yourself the opportunity to learn and grow because it is hip and free to live with “no regrets.”