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RC Nurse Betty
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Eating Chocolate
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Sheeps, your post was wonderful. I'm going to share it with my 18 yr. old daughter, who is often fearful of life and wracked with self-doubt. I know your words will inspire and touch her, especially because she "gets" Russ. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us here on the perch. You are truly an inspiration.
There's a line from a Beatle's lyric that came to mind when I was reading your thoughts. I think it goes something like this... "Life is what happens when you're making plans."
Life is happening to us every second of the day... it doesn't wait until we're ready, or we've made all the right decisions, or our children grow up, or we lose 10 pounds. It just keeps happening and we keep living it. And every day life is filled with unlimited possibility.
Go for it Sheeps! ! !
EDIT: My daughter just emailed me asking about the Gladiator prequel... I told you she gets Russ! Anyway, I sent her your post Sheeps. She has been going through a rough time in school AND broke up with her boyfriend a few days ago. I'm sure your words will be so helpful to her. I believe God watches over us... and sometimes the right person comes along, just when you need them. Thanks again Sheeps.
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Oblivia2
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Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
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Beautiful post, Sheeps.
You can't imagine how much it speaks to me. I need to find the courage to make the changes in my life that you have made. You, like RC, have been such an inspiration to me.
Keep having at it and eating the chocolate, Sheeps!
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Scarletwoman714
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Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
Dear Sheeps...thank you so much for sharing that part of yourself with us. I haven't stopped crying yet. I too am going through some big life changes in my 40's after living a way too safe life and find myself scared witless most times. Those are some of the things I keep trying to tell myself and to see them written down by a woman with some life experience means the world to me. I am going to print it out and look at it from time to time and share it with some friends. Thanks and God bless you!
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Sheeps
Registered User
Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
OK, y'all, after writing that soapbox rant, I was all cried out and sane again - and NOW - I'm cryin' again! ! Thanks a lot! !
Seriously, my post was nothing - it was all the reaction and sharing after it that is most valuable to this special thread we have going. This, after all, is what makes the Perch, well, the Perch. Right? Thank you all for posting your touching reactions to me and one another.
And I want to add - Russell, look at what he's done. So often I wish he KNEW. What he gives us without even knowing. And how we can never really say thankyou....for me, it was Russell who came along just when I needed to hear the words to incite change....and hope....I am so happy to have passed a tiny bit of that energy on here. What an incredible honor. Maybe in some way, that's how I can thank HIM. Spreading the energy! Thanks to you all.
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Janet
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Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
Sheeps,
Beautiful, thoughtful, deep words you've shared with us. Thank you for your bravery. I relate so strongly to the caution and fear you mention. Similar training from my also-worried parents - - my 83 year old father still needs me to call him after I drive back home to let him know I didn't perish in a car wreck on the way. Stopped horseback riding lessons after 9 sessions because cantering scared the crap out of me - - never got close to the gallop. Throw in your occasional panic attacks, agoraphobia, stage fright, anxiety, and lack of faith in myself, and there are more things I have NOT done than have done.
So your words encourage me, goad me, and frighten me too. I hope I can be as brave as you someday, but it's one baby step at a time. At least I love chocolate.....
Thank you so very much for opening your heart to all of us, and reminding us to just let go!
And because I haven't seen the names vcSuperStar and Lisa S before this thread, I'd like to send welcoming frus to both of you - - thanks for joining us and sharing your heartfelt thoughts.
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ArianRfH
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Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
for writing this. I'd like to say, as one of the younger members of this board, that you are always an inspiration to me.
You and the others like you, strong women, willing to take the risk of opening themselves up because they know that the risk is worth taking, you are the reason I come back here.
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secretariat7
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Good luck, Sheeps
Here's wishing you a good boat and fair winds, a swift and surefooted horse, lots of Godiva, and a true soul mate. Psst - Arian seems to have a good candidate for the latter (veg) Not a bad looking hunk of sheep.
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snoot
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Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
{ { {Sheeps} } } No tears, but some thoughts . . .
I too came to the board at a time of crisis - - personal crisis and marital crisis. And things have only gotten better since then. I-m working on "getting life all over me" by taking classes, reading books, finding a new job, and listening to those around me. Too often I get so caught up in doing things and seeing things that I forget the PEOPLE in my life.
Is there any feeling in the world better than a really long, gut-wrenching laugh? I don't think so. I feel healed after a good laugh, and I get good laughs from interacting with other people. I try to get more and more of those laughs these days.
I feel stronger and less scared everyday too. The strength I have found inside me was always there, but I was afraid to tap into it. I didn't know if I had enough, so I thought I should save it for . . . something. Now I know that it's not a finite amount - - I have plenty for a lifetime. And I've gotten to a much, much better place.
All of this is thanks to many people in my life including my dear perchadeez and Russell. Does he know the good he does? Probably. He probably sees it in all the people around him too. How could they not be affected like we are, when we are so far away and they are so close to him?
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Russellme
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Eating Chocolate, and Proud of it!....
Life is indeed short, there is so much to experience and so little time. I've done a lot, but it's only a drop in the sea of life. I sometimes think about wasted opportunities, then I remind myself to get out of the past and look to the future, that's were the new opportunities wait.
Thanks Sheeps we can never be reminded enough.
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