Tuesday 9 March 2010

DOWN BUT NOT OUT

Every now and again I find myself extremely disillusioned when circumstances make me feel that I want to give up on life.
Yesterday was one of those days.
“What’s the point?’ I asked myself for the umpteenth time, ‘Life is a bitch, and then you die, and nobody really cares either way.’

Then I went back to the mirror of my mind, and looked at myself as a two year old, and remembered just how much I love myself. Remembered that I care.

 

And then I did some very basic arithmetic.

If my life is anything to go by, the law of averages leans very heavily in favour of me being alive tomorrow, because in the many thousands of days that I have been around, I have not once woken up to find that I was dead.

So, if the chances are that I will be alive tomorrow, and I care about myself, then I owe it to myself to live to the best of my ability.

And Michael Masser and Linda Creed, via George Benson and Whitney Houston, again helped me get things into perspective.

'And if by chance that special place
that you’ve been dreaming of
leads you to a lonely place
find your strength in love’

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