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Topic: Quote from the Bloggess
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nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 |  Posted: 9:54 PM, June 13th (Thursday), 2013 |     |
"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. 
You can call me NIK
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön
Posts: 28283 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
FlySomeday
♀ 35150
Member # 35150 |  Posted: 10:17 PM, June 13th (Thursday), 2013 | |
thanks for sharing.. so can't wait to see the sun again.
Digging Deep in the Mud
Posts: 232 | Registered: Mar 2012 | From: Virginia |
fallingquickly
♀ 36599
Member # 36599 | | Posted: 10:17 PM, June 13th (Thursday), 2013 | |
Thank you.
Scars remind us where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going. (Criminal Minds)
I saw him, I could not unsee him. -StrongButBroken
There came a point when it was too painful to love him, so I stopped.
Posts: 462 | Registered: Aug 2012 |
dmari
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Member # 37215 | | Posted: 10:23 PM, June 13th (Thursday), 2013 | |
Yes ~ so very true!! Thank you for sharing NIK!
Me (BS): 43 Children: DD 19, DS 16
Divorced September 30, 2014
"It's always darkest before the dawn ..."
Posts: 2460 | Registered: Oct 2012 |
Kajem
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Member # 36134 | | Posted: 10:54 PM, June 13th (Thursday), 2013 | |
NIK, you need to repost that on Monday's inspiration post.
I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - Unknown
Relationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page.
Posts: 6040 | Registered: Jul 2012 | From: Florida |
woundedby2
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Member # 18522 | | Posted: 12:19 AM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
Love it!
Me: BS
2 kids: DD16 and DS19
Him: The Assclown NPD
OW: "friend" of 15 years
Divorced! Feb. 2010
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Posts: 7904 | Registered: Mar 2008 | From: SoCal |
wildbananas
♀ 10552
Member # 10552 | | Posted: 12:35 AM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
Yo Empress... knock, knock. 
I loved this. And yes, sunshine lies ahead.
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
Posts: 15507 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Now an AZ girl |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 7:48 AM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
You can call me NIK
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön
Posts: 28283 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
Pentup
♀ 20563
Member # 20563 | | Posted: 11:26 AM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
Love her blog and her book! Thanks for sharing.
Me- BS
Him- FWS (I hope- F)
Posts: 6868 | Registered: Aug 2008 | From: Not Oz |
Jrazz
♀ 31349
Member # 31349 | | Posted: 2:56 PM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
"All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions. And at bottom, those opinions are merely our efforts to escape the underlying uneasiness of being human. - Pema Chodron
Posts: 20833 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: California |
Rebreather
♀ 30817
Member # 30817 | | Posted: 2:57 PM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
I thought it would be "a hug is a strangle, not yet finished." LOL
But this one is nice too.
Me BS
Him WH
2 ddays in '07
Rec'd.
"The cure for the pain, is the pain." -Rumi
Posts: 6831 | Registered: Jan 2011 |
SBB
♀ 35229
Member # 35229 | | Posted: 7:10 PM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
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.
I may have reached a point where I'd piss on him if he was on fire.... eventually!!
Posts: 5841 | Registered: Apr 2012 | From: Australia |
ruinedandbroken
♀ 29250
Member # 29250 | | Posted: 7:56 PM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
That's a great quote!
“People who cheat feel that life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever have my soul surgically removed."
Me: BS 42. Him: WH 41 2 Kids 6&9
Married 14 yrs Together 21
Posts: 1583 | Registered: Aug 2010 |
newnormal
♀ 21925
Member # 21925 | | Posted: 10:23 PM, June 14th (Friday), 2013 | |
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.
BS 43 (me)
FWH 48
D-day 9/07
Dont retreat, reload.
"Pull that knife out of your back - and sever the fuel line to that bus you got thrown under" Bufffalo
Posts: 1033 | Registered: Dec 2008 |
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