Saturday the 14th. Very slow. But some commentary.

Folks have asked me every now and then, don’t I ever get depressed by everything that happens?

And yep, the answer is yep Indeed! See, though, the thing is…. I get thru it by giving myself permission to retreat when necessary and remove myself mentally from whatever it is that angsts me. You might have noticed yesterday and today I’ve relied a lot on automatic sharing via Buffer (btw,askbling.com/bimapwf shows how you can do that yourself for general IM and hopefully today I’ll get out the SEO version as well). That’s simply because I lacked the energy to do more.

I count any day that sees myself above ground as a Good Day. Sure, things could be better. I wish they were. They could also be a hell of a lot worse too! And even when it gets to an utterly miserable point the plain fact is, I *cannot* give in and focus solely upon myself. I have 4 kids I need to see off as self-sufficient magnificent adults, a husband who deserves the best, and various/sundry mooses and feathered mooses as well.

If I give in forever, my family cannot count on me. And that is simply not an acceptable reality. They are more important to me than my own self-pity.

Not knocking self-pity, btw, because we all need times when we’re NOT superStrong and times where we can simply break down and then put ourselves back together again. Yesterday was that kind of day for me (as was this morning). But things are getting better.

In closing, nobody is 100% self-sufficiently magnificent; we all have our deeply humanizing times. And yep, life *isn’t* fair. That’s, well, life. You have to deal with it the very best you can because honestly… nobody will deal with it for you.

Coffee?