I think of all sorts of topics for blog post while laying in bed right before I go to sleep. You will have to take my word that some of them are really awesome ideas – then again most of the time I forget most of it or change my mind about posting them.
Really, nothing exciting or earth shattering goes on around here most of the time. Once in a while I get to go on a road trip. As for the neighborhood excitement it comes and goes. I am getting much better at ignoring all the crazy and stupid stuff around here. I can even tune out all the loud voices most of the time.
I just finished reading for the second time almost all the J D Robb In Death series. Why not? It was something to do.
After reading a few blogs this morning I started wondering why (just my opinion here) so many people equate acceptance with surrender when it comes to dealing with MS? Just wondering. … yeah acceptance – not the legal sense of the term but the state of realizing that something is believable or true and being OK with it. I sure can not change that I have MS but being ok with it is not the same as surrendering and giving up. Not sure I expressed this well . … what say you?
I have wondering if everyone thinks the same – evaluates the same etc. . When thinking I can take a linear approach where my thoughts go from point a to point b. Or I can end up in circular thought pattern where when I go from a to b I end up back at a with no resolution like the old chicken and the egg deal. Then there is open thinking for lack of a better way to express it. Where my thoughts start at a and go to d, f , g – they ping all around. Often ending with the conclusion of point b but not always. I guess I start the process without an end point in mind? A closed system V an open one? augh so hard to explain really – and truly am not nuts really hahahhhah well at least I don’t think I am.
I have been playing:
Update: since typing this and hitting post the ghetto bird has flown announcing that they had someone surrounded and they should give up and come out and
I now get to go to a show tonight as Mikeys mom can not go woo hoo woo! I will be in good seats watching The Million Dollar Quartet
so something is going on around here!
i’m so glad you get to go to the show! how fun!!
as for acceptance…. for me i’m not sure what it is… i don’t think acceptance is surrender… i think that when we get up each day and go about our business, whatever that may be, we are not surrendering but continuing to live in what ever ways we are capable of doing so…
i wrote about the road to acceptance… i think the reason i have not reached the acceptance that “they” say we should is because i’m not sure what acceptance is… i’m pissed, i’m not ok with this disease and i’m not going to roll over and give up….
so is acceptance simply the act of acknowledging that i have MS? that my life is forever altered and will continue to be altered in more ways as time goes by? i don’t know…. i just know i’m pissed, i’m not ok, and i don’t like it one little bit….
as for the grieving process that supposedly leads to acceptance… i don’t know that i buy that either…. the stages of grieving… logically it all sounds good… on paper it might look good… but i think it’s a bunch of bs gibberish written down to give us something to do…. some way to label all the crap…. lol
Yeah.
What she said.
Hiya Webster!
yeah I am not so sure about the stages of grieving thing either. I guess my difinition of acceptance is kind of the Jack Webb line from the old Dragnet ‘just the facts” in other words yeah I got MS and it sucks – until something changes in the research department not much to change that.
F’ surrender. and the royal “they”? pft I just don’t think that acceptance and surrender go hand in hand. Now anger yeah I get that one!!
Acceptance…is a dirty word for some people. For me it does not mean surrender, but rather the realization of a facts (I have chronic illnesses) and the truth (they aren’t going to go away). Once you accept the facts, you are free to get on with your life.
If you don’t or can’t accept the way you are right now, I think you can get so caught up in the struggle against the reality, that you are no longer capable of living your life to it’s fullest.
I don’t like being chronically ill, I don’t like the limitations, disabilities or symptoms that come with it, BUT, I have them. So, in my opinion, it is better to accept that – this is the way it is, and work towards living the best life I can within the confines that chronic illness brings.
There you have it, my philosophy in a nutshell.
Ok you explained it way better than I did!
To me, acceptance does not equal surrender. I think it’s important to accept your current reality and circumstances in order to be reality-based in how you live your life. Of course, you can accept the circumstances but still work for change.
that is my thought. Somehow sometimes I think my attitude of adjusting and accepting is mistaken for giving in or giving up. I do have stuff come up and have to work my way through it but not much I can do really other than adjust and deal.
how was the show? after reading about it …. well, those that the story is about are some of our favorite artists! johnny cash…. boy he was something… those days in the music business were quite interesting… much different that it is nowadays…
i love the movie “walk the line” … i know it’s not 100% factual but the story of these guys getting together and traveling and pushing their music is a fun one….
Hi Jan,
There’s an award waiting for you on my blog! If you don’t accept awards that’s no problem, I wanted to include you because I love reading your stuff, viewing your vids and looking at your photos!
thank you but yeah I am not an award posting type.