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nowiknow23 posted 6/13/2013 21:54 PM

"And eventually the clouds metaphorically part and – as if by magic – we get a blast of normalcy and remember how amazingly wonderful it can be to feel life instead of suffer from it." - Jenny Lawson

I read this today in a post by the Bloggess. Her post was about depression, but this quote echoed for me in another way.

It reminded me so very much of the moments back when I was in the thick of things. The moments when the pain of the betrayal, the chaos of the every day, and the relentlessness of the shit storm would part, and for a brief moment, I could see the sun again. I could see what was on the horizen, and I could visualize the new normal that was waiting, just around the next corner. Those moments saved my sanity in the darker days.

Sunshine lies ahead. Believe it.

FlySomeday posted 6/13/2013 22:17 PM

thanks for sharing.. so can't wait to see the sun again.

fallingquickly posted 6/13/2013 22:17 PM

Thank you.

dmari posted 6/13/2013 22:23 PM

Yes ~ so very true!! Thank you for sharing NIK!

Kajem posted 6/13/2013 22:54 PM

NIK, you need to repost that on Monday's inspiration post.

woundedby2 posted 6/14/2013 00:19 AM

Love it!

wildbananas posted 6/14/2013 00:35 AM

Yo Empress... knock, knock.

I loved this. And yes, sunshine lies ahead.

nowiknow23 posted 6/14/2013 07:48 AM

Yo Empress... knock, knock.

Pentup posted 6/14/2013 11:26 AM

Love her blog and her book! Thanks for sharing.

Jrazz posted 6/14/2013 14:56 PM

Rebreather posted 6/14/2013 14:57 PM

I thought it would be "a hug is a strangle, not yet finished." LOL

But this one is nice too.

SBB posted 6/14/2013 19:10 PM

I love this NIK - so true!!

Sunlight has been big for my healing metaphorically and literally (ironic if you knew me - I have Vitiligo). It has been so nice to 'feel' myself too after having numbed and dumbed myself down for so long.

Love it. Thank you for sharing.

a hug is a strangle, not yet finished.

ruinedandbroken posted 6/14/2013 19:56 PM

That's a great quote!

newnormal posted 6/14/2013 22:23 PM

I keep thinking that if I just hold on for a little while longer it will be like giving birth....painful for a little while but you have a wonderful new life on the other side.