tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post6315280102972177278..comments2023-10-30T09:19:50.592+00:00Comments on The Beauty Offensive: What Am I?seahorsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006649663400552591noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-4626233583488701132010-01-02T16:40:03.812+00:002010-01-02T16:40:03.812+00:00WCD: if only it were a whole degree. No, just one ...WCD: if only it were a whole degree. No, just one course towards, but still v pleased!<br /><br />Other people really don't understand do they? It's so much more complicated than 'oh look I can do more, I'm delighted'...seahorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006649663400552591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-37212330041030080032010-01-02T06:11:23.998+00:002010-01-02T06:11:23.998+00:00COngratulations on your degree and your improvemen...COngratulations on your degree and your improvement!!<br /><br />Enjoy your improvement. Other people don't know the ebbs and flows as we know them.<br /><br />WCDWheelchair Dancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11981313345401954118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-65763425264935592422010-01-01T19:22:11.301+00:002010-01-01T19:22:11.301+00:00Goldfish: been pondering your words a bit more dee...Goldfish: been pondering your words a bit more deeply and yes, it's about recognising that trying to fit into other people's expectations of what the two spheres of 'ill' and 'well' involve causes much of the frustration.<br /><br />My biggest lesson learned from the last five years is that what other people think, or expect, matters not a jot! And yes, staying live to your interests and your inner life is the way through xxseahorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006649663400552591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-7571011555786910422010-01-01T19:19:59.178+00:002010-01-01T19:19:59.178+00:00Maggie: yes! weren't those lanterns lovely. Mu...Maggie: yes! weren't those lanterns lovely. Must get one next year. Happy New Year from a fellow insomniac <br /><br />cusp: I think that having good sense these days is what my old friends find hard to square. I was so off the wall at school! Have made a resolution to return to blogging. Already finding it far more spiritually rewarding than Facebook xxseahorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006649663400552591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-64707771708097930062010-01-01T14:43:45.413+00:002010-01-01T14:43:45.413+00:00Well I'm just pleased to see you here --- don&...Well I'm just pleased to see you here --- don't care whether you're in an up or a down phase [in the nicest possible way ;O)]...and congratulations on your success in the OU exam too.<br /><br />I think the peaks and troughs of a chronic condition are difficult to negotiate emotionally and expectationaly (if you see what I mean) but I'm sure your good sense -- of which you have plenty --- will help you to negotiate the bends and detours. Enjoy the good stuff and I hope it lasts. If other people don't like it then that's their problem.<br /><br />I hope that 2010 will see you continuing to improve and making the best of any situtaion in which you find yourself. You're good at that anyway.<br /><br />Good to see you back<br /><br />xCusphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717783581169397585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-41891313748295343642010-01-01T05:30:04.593+00:002010-01-01T05:30:04.593+00:00Happy New Year! As you may guess from the time, I...Happy New Year! As you may guess from the time, I'm in an insomniac phase! ;-)<br /><br />Lots of fireworks at midnight, and a few of those flying lanterns went past too.<br /><br />MaggieMaggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630530599678517169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-57703807136774905622010-01-01T00:39:19.708+00:002010-01-01T00:39:19.708+00:00Thank you David, so nice to see you are still out ...Thank you David, so nice to see you are still out there!<br /><br />Goldfish, as I sit here with screaming back ache ('I will be heard') I kind of smile. I am very much still qualified to blog as I have been. Just a bit confused.<br /><br />Happy New Year both, and to my automaton troll that writes in Chinese, who will surely pop by soon ;-)seahorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006649663400552591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-72998315240812940522009-12-31T23:46:40.923+00:002009-12-31T23:46:40.923+00:00I've found that however much I have wanted it,...I've found that however much I have wanted it, phases of improvement are almost as tough as deterioration - much much tougher than staying on a level. More unknowns, more risk-taking and more difficulty with other people's expectations and assumptions. You don't know where you stand with your own changing limitations, let alone anything else.<br /><br />Ill worlds and well worlds remind me of Groucho Marx not wanting to belong to a club that would have him as a member. I don't want to belong to a world whose identity is illness, and I don't want to belong to a world whose identity is health. I'd rather stick to the worlds of my interests and passions, although experiences, including illness and health, are undoubtedly an influence.<br /><br />But as far as the blogging world is concerned (one I have been neglecting for quite different reasons), the valuable contribution you make was never qualified by a medical certificate. You're one of "us" for as long as you want to be, in any way you like. <br /><br />Happy New Year Seahorse!The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550542818993957125.post-72506681612132805302009-12-31T21:26:56.527+00:002009-12-31T21:26:56.527+00:00I'm so glad your doing better and improving! H...I'm so glad your doing better and improving! Hope you have a great 2010!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360723110664693186noreply@blogger.com