Coping
How do we cope with life? With the curveballs it throws at us, sometimes gently; other times so viciously, it knocks you to your knees? At those times that the figure of speech "when it rains, it pours" does not even begin to describe the deluge of the things you have got going on?
How do you cope?
Do you let life get you down? Are you all melancholy and sad and whiny?
Does it make you want to just lay down and die: or at the very least, stick your butt out for life to give you a good whipping, after which you go, whimpering, into some dark place to have a pity party for the rest of your natural life? Become a "used to be"?
Or, do you grab the curveball out of the air and toss it back, the action fierce enough to make "life" think again about daring to toss that curveball, or any other, your way again any time soon?
When knocked down, do you defiantly get back up, screaming - and proudly too - that come what may, nothing is going to keep you down? And when it rains and pours, you simply grab an umbrella and if that won't do, add a raincoat, boots and whatever it'll take to keep dry while that particular storm rages?
Life can be tough. Life IS tough, probably for most people, and if we do not get tough, life will knock us down, so badly and thoroughly we may not normally get back up.
So, how do you cope? How do you remain sane, happy and adjusted in the crazy and wonderfully enriching and amazingly painful existence popularly known as "life"?
I cope, with laughter.
And being "academic" about almost everything.
I endeavor to find the comedy in everything.
I laugh at and with it - for some situations mock you, don't they?
I laugh, at myself and with myself - taking myself too seriously is an exercise in pompousness & arrogance, in my humble opinion.
I make it a point to let myself know that whatever the situation is, it could be much worse. I know that there are people worse off than I am at that moment, no matter how dire or sad my situation may be. In emotional situations, I will appear fairly unmoved - tears, anxiety and emotions do not change the situation nor can they improve it, so why spend my energy in unproductive responses - but it does not mean I am unmoved, untouched, not hurting or that I do not care.
And when none of these work, I find a place where I am surrounded by the vastness and agedness of nature and remember that in the scheme and age of things, I am but a speck: so really, not quite THAT important!
That is how I cope.
With life.
It is my way of dealing.
With potentially crippling situations.
I will stand, fierce and proud
And face life and all it brings.
I will not be knocked down.
By anything; especially not by anyone.
Bring on the pain, let it rain!
Defiant I am, whimper I will not
(okay, maybe just a little, Lol!)
How do you cope?
How do you cope?
Do you let life get you down? Are you all melancholy and sad and whiny?
Does it make you want to just lay down and die: or at the very least, stick your butt out for life to give you a good whipping, after which you go, whimpering, into some dark place to have a pity party for the rest of your natural life? Become a "used to be"?
Or, do you grab the curveball out of the air and toss it back, the action fierce enough to make "life" think again about daring to toss that curveball, or any other, your way again any time soon?
When knocked down, do you defiantly get back up, screaming - and proudly too - that come what may, nothing is going to keep you down? And when it rains and pours, you simply grab an umbrella and if that won't do, add a raincoat, boots and whatever it'll take to keep dry while that particular storm rages?
Life can be tough. Life IS tough, probably for most people, and if we do not get tough, life will knock us down, so badly and thoroughly we may not normally get back up.
So, how do you cope? How do you remain sane, happy and adjusted in the crazy and wonderfully enriching and amazingly painful existence popularly known as "life"?
I cope, with laughter.
And being "academic" about almost everything.
I endeavor to find the comedy in everything.
I laugh at and with it - for some situations mock you, don't they?
I laugh, at myself and with myself - taking myself too seriously is an exercise in pompousness & arrogance, in my humble opinion.
I make it a point to let myself know that whatever the situation is, it could be much worse. I know that there are people worse off than I am at that moment, no matter how dire or sad my situation may be. In emotional situations, I will appear fairly unmoved - tears, anxiety and emotions do not change the situation nor can they improve it, so why spend my energy in unproductive responses - but it does not mean I am unmoved, untouched, not hurting or that I do not care.
And when none of these work, I find a place where I am surrounded by the vastness and agedness of nature and remember that in the scheme and age of things, I am but a speck: so really, not quite THAT important!
That is how I cope.
With life.
It is my way of dealing.
With potentially crippling situations.
I will stand, fierce and proud
And face life and all it brings.
I will not be knocked down.
By anything; especially not by anyone.
Bring on the pain, let it rain!
Defiant I am, whimper I will not
(okay, maybe just a little, Lol!)
How do you cope?
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