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atheos


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If you make a decision, and that is followed immediately by months of crying and wishing you didn't have responsibilities so you could just kill yourself, you have probably made the wrong choice.

It's taken me most of 2012 so far to figure it out, but I finally got the message, loud and clear: Abandoning your dreams in the name of safety/security SUCKS. Especially when it's your own anxiety and insecurity, not reality, telling you your dreams are too risky to pursue.

I'm getting back on track to move my life in the direction I want it to go -- and suddenly *poof*, depression gone! Nothing wrong with my brain chemistry, it was all my thoughts and my choices and the situation I put myself in... and as soon as I stopped trying to force myself into a life I didn't want and started pursuing the life I do want I felt better...



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hotrod


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Dear Atheos

Thank you so very much for your very inspirational share.  I too have experienced the same release when I truly" Let Go and Let God".

 



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Pushka


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Hugs Atheos,

Thanks for the share .. :) The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. I love that part of the serenity prayer.

Hugs P :)

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Smukke


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I feel the same, absolutely the same! I recently read the quote "Get a life." That is it.

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Thank you for sharing! I love it when I finally start to 'figure it out'.

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I am so happy you are feeling better.

maresie.



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