lorrieonline's Journal

Everyone here is so inpiring.  If you are reading, thank you so much for being here!! You make me remember (epsecially on slow going mornings), why it is I want to get up and live and go out and make my little mark for myself, whatever the heck that might end of being.  It's mine, damn it, and I deserve it, whatever it is!

I was just reminded in reading Goosetip's journal that there are a lot of wonderful people in this world - those folks that we've known so long and they don't always share their issues until that one day.  I too have some friends that I met locally that surprised me with their news.   I have a friend with MS (I think he actually thought I was a prude before the whole MS topic inspired a lot of conversation - funny, I just thought he was a tad unsocial himself, lol)

Another friend has RSD and I met her - and it seems so amazing that people who also share challenges are the biggest supporters in my life. 

Another friend has Lupus and she is also a poet.  I see her with her little walker - she sings too.  She'll joke on occasion that I should take the walker cuz I need it more than she does (on a bad day, lol).  There is an unconditional, unquestioned bond with all my friends who also retreat from time to time.  We understand one another, we love one another, support each other and know when to give some space.  Same goes true for getting each other out of a slump.  Like "my" Leo Buscaglia always said, "nobody can put you on a downer with your consent."  I know he didn't have MS but he had his share of things too.

Today, I just feel so grateful.  And I am still a little ticked that the dog tried to attack someone and knocked me over in the process.  But hey, I didn't let go of his leash and I could get back up and tell him what a stupid idea THAT  was!  lol.  Funny thing is, even if I didn't have MS, I've been having big dogs since I was born, and I can recall taking dives on occasion as a kid, lol. 

I'm so thankful that what was going to turn into a day I wanted so desperately to just go back to bed, I feel like I want to claim this day for me.  Afterall, it is mine and what happens in it, can be wonderful, eventful and appreciated, or just a day lost.   And on that note, I will do what I love best and play some music and get moving.  After I get myself worn down for a rest, I'll see about working on that book of mine.   

Hopefully, everyone reading today will have a wonderful day too.  As my God loving friends always remind me too, sometimes there is a larger force at work in our lives than we think about all the time.  So appreciate the day, journal it and recount it when it is needed as an inspiration.   hmmmm what a thought.