Assets and liabilities......

[poltr1]

It's far too easy for me to focus on -- and worry about -- my liabilities when I see them on a balance sheet. There are physical (and fiscal) assets -- home, cars, retirement money, collections and collectable items. And then there are non-fiscal assets like having a roof over my head, clothes on my bank, food on the table, and reasonably good health.

Some people don't even have this. I don't know how they go on from day to day, living in constant despair and desparation. But I think I'm learning from firsthand experience the past few weeks.

Perhaps this is the wake-up call, or the kick in my complacency that I needed to change my ways, that I should not take these things for granted.

Comments

[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

I often wonder how other people live every day with chronic pain. Somedays I do okay and some days I say f* this and stay in bed.

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

I long ago took the attitude that each day that I'm in pain, is another day that proves I'm still alive. Which means that my inflictors of pain have still not won. There are still says when I stay in bed, but my pain is a moral victory. Believe me, it helps to think this way. It keeps me sane, and allows me to remain upbeat most days.

[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

:) There's a Maxine cartoon that says "After a certain age, if you wake up and nothing hurts, you're dead." LOL.

[poltr1]

Legend has it that the Marines have a similar saying. I think it's "Pain is good for you!" The rationale? It keeps you aware that you're alive.

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

My uncle was a Marine in Viet Nam, he used to live next door to us untill I was 5, I may have learned it from him. I don't remember where I got it from, maybe I was told that belief while I was in our local VA hospital when my back was broken. I was only 7, but thet were the only place equiped at the time to handle such an injury.