From: kiwi@NOSPAMcogeco.ca   
      
   Hey Gordon. You're right, I'm just in the valley right now. I'm basically in   
   the same position, except i can't work, and my wife decided she wasn't in it   
   for the bad, just the good, and decided we weren't right for each other any   
   more...after 20 years. I've too will be homeless soon.   
   A few years ago I had disability send me back to school so I could work, at   
   my wife's "request"...get off disability, go to work, or get out. I worked   
   just over 2 years, became less able, and ended up n the hospital seriously   
   ill, requiring life saving surgery. I wasn't expected to survive, they lost   
   me and brought me back 3 times. Now I have to go through the system again to   
   get disability, it only took me 8 years of being shoved around the first   
   time. Problem this time, my health is worse, I don't have support at home,   
   and I don't have any fight left in me.   
   So, most times the valleys are deep and wide, and much of the time I don't   
   really care if, nor do I really want to get to the other side. Hell isn't   
   just a place!   
   Larry   
   "Gordon"  wrote in message   
   news:1191124680_907@sp6iad.superfeed.net...   
   > Hello Larry   
   >   
   > Focus on the negative, see the negative, and reinforce the negative.   
   > This thinking pattern often causes people to miss the obvious.   
   >   
   > The positive   
   >   
   > Start now, this very moment, think what positive things happened to you   
   > today.   
   > Don't overlook the small things, if they were positive they count.   
   >   
   > Write each down. When you start this exercise you will find you overlook   
   > many positive things.   
   >   
   > Focus on the positive, see the positive, and reinforce the positive.   
   > This thinking pattern often causes people to miss the obvious.   
   >   
   > Many of the negatives were not so negative.   
   >   
   > Cause and effect are sometimes not understood when we only see what is   
   > happening in the here and now.   
   >   
   > I lost my job. My landlady told me she sold the house. Homeless and   
   > unemployed one would say this was a negative day. But it was not. I pick   
   > up the phone and told a client that I would no longer be able to help her.   
   > Explaining my day, she suggested I move into her spare bedroom. Even   
   > unemployed my credit was great. She required a co-signer to get her   
   > mortgage. She helped me so I helped her. She owns a home and we have   
   > shared it for around 15 years. I went back to school and now own my own   
   > company. From my work I have met my best friend between the times we are   
   > together or on the phone we spend about 18 hours each month together.   
   >   
   > So read this and say: He so full of Sh##.   
   >   
   > But know this you made a friend today.   
   >   
   > Hope you write again   
   >   
   > G:]   
   >   
   > Friends   
   >   
   > To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that   
   > he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental   
   > and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in   
   > time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. . . .   
   > Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not   
   > sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as   
   > some say, but in melody.   
   > Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A   
   > Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Wednesday" (1849).   
   >   
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   >   
   > "Larry"  wrote in message   
   > news:2NwLi.736$9F1.446@read1.cgocable.net...   
   >>I was always told "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say   
   >>anything at all!"   
   >> Well, lately I haven't had anything good to say...and each sick day gets   
   >> shittier than the last...besides that, who would listen   
   >> anyways?!?!?!?!?!?   
   >>   
   >> "Gordon"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1191077110_703@sp6iad.superfeed.net...   
   >>>I come here waiting and hoping someone else will write anything.   
   >>> We could turn this into a community of friends sharing life moments.   
   >>>   
   >>> So say hello   
   >>>   
   >>> If enough write we can start something good.   
   >>>   
   >>> Gentlemen instead of asking for sex the first time a woman writes ask   
   >>> about her day.   
   >>>   
   >>> Ladies tell us something interesting.   
   >>>   
   >>> Everyone who reads these messages do two things please   
   >>>   
   >>> First if you know someone who is looking for a place to write more than   
   >>> sex ads tell them to write something here.   
   >>>   
   >>> Second write something yourself. Share any kind of life moment.   
   >>> Write a poem   
   >>> Tell us about a day with a friend (human, plant or animal)   
   >>> Anything we write, is enough to start a conversation   
   >>>   
   >>> G:]   
   >>>   
   >>> So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost   
   >>> indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.   
   >>> Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet.   
   >>> Across the Plains, "Lay Morals" (1892).   
   >>>   
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