Putting life in perspective

[Myrianna]

So, today was another one of those days where I wanted to walk out of my job, and never look back. And then my mother called... Which typically is a frightening thing, however...

I tell her about my day, and she tells me, "God only gives us what we can handle." ... Being agnostic, I just sit there a moment and contemplate... Her next comment, of course, is, "I bet you wish he didn't trust you with so much," which I found rather amusing...
She goes on to tell me about her friend Annetta... Annetta had been living in Philly when I saw her last, in the (pardon my use of the word, but I stayed with her enough to know) projects... (yes, I got to be the scared little white girl... note: if this happens to you, dress goth, they think you know voodoo....) ... off track, anyhow... Annetta since then bought a house, which the government shortly thereafter condemned, sending her a bill for over $15,000.00 for it's destruction. After that, her 14 year old daughter has since given birth to twins (four months premature)... And her older daughter (who also has a child, if I recall) got out of the hospital the same day as the younger one, because of a serious car accident...

This made me realize, my job may suck, but overall, my day really wasn't that bad. I'm just posting this in hopes that it will give at least someone the same perspective it gave me... "At least god doesn't trust me that much." (If there is one.)

[Ansherak]

God really doesnt trust me all that much, thats why he sent me my wife, he obviously new I would fail miserably at looking after myself, heh

D-

[Jolena]

I know exactly how you feel hon. My youngest of three children was born only 6 weeks early but he had multiple medical problems. I had a very rare pregnancy related cancer that was not detected until 3 weeks after he was born but it made things very difficult for him after birth. He spent 3 months in NICU and almost died several times. He had to live on oxygen 24/7 for the first 11 months of his life and was in and out of the hospital very near death several times. However.. while on my many ICU stays with him.. I looked around and saw so many other kids who's parents were not there.. could not be there due to work or other children.. or who had left because it was too much to deal with. While spending the 3 months in NICU wiht him I knew several families who's children died. It put things into perspective for me and I always realized from that point on that there will always be someone else who has it worse. And even if it doesn't appear to you that they do.. well to each person their own problem can seem so major and serious, even if to someone else it is not.
As for the cancer issue, I went through chemo for a month and half and thankfully pulled through just fine.. while I was there taking my treatments I remember the older ladies there who were missing hair and looked so pale.. taking much heavier doses of chemo whispering to the nurses or each other how sad it was that I was so young and was there with cancer. At the same time, in my mind I was thinking to myself that I was a very very lucky girl.. I did not have it near as bad as those women.

[Skirmisher]

Reality checks are always a good thing to remind us how much worse things could always be.

I remember how my dad grew up in a town with no running water and no electricity and the "big town" he would go visit with his mom from time to time as his father was gone had like 4500 people.

Life throws us curves from time to time, but there really are avenues open to us beside feeling sorry for ourselves.

[Overlord]

Yeah so why not flip it around the other way... things could always be better. I've just been forced to restart my life from scratch thanks to an evil bitch of an ex which robbed me blind and left me with nothing but clothes on my back...
Yeah someones always got it worse... but someone always has it better too... screw comparing your lives to other peoples.. just fucks with your head to be honest. As for god.. *smirks* I believe in myself and what i can accomplish not what "God has trusted me with"

[Sweets]

I love that feeling.

I have had some pretty sucky days lately and feel into feeling pretty sorry for myself. Now this is stupid, but woke me up was a show on discovery on how this cat saved all five of her kittens from a raging fire getting badly burned in the process.

It made me really start reflecting on how good I have it and what wonderful things are ahead. Finding perspective is one of the most lightening feelings.