{"id":6388,"date":"2014-04-18T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:09:56","slug":"pity-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2014\/04\/pity-party.html","title":{"rendered":"Pity Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo: I'm all for positivity &amp; the power of gratitude. Just sayin that sometimes you may need one of these:\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/t1.0-9\/1908269_10203718288817015_7863727090417227183_n.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had to giggle when I saw this meme, created by <a title=\"Theresa Byrne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theresabyrne.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa Byrne<\/a>, another\u00a0contributor to <a title=\"Good Men Project\" href=\"http:\/\/goodmenproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Men Project,<\/a> \u00a0since it was sucked right out of my spinning mind. Many&#8217;s the time I have petulantly pouted about the way life events were unfolding.\u00a0I\u00a0have stomped and stormed, raved and raged (internally) and kicked up an &#8216;it&#8217;s not\u00a0fair&#8217; fuss.\u00a0Got me nowhere.\u00a0Didn&#8217;t change\u00a0the events. What it did do was\u00a0expel\u00a0energy, that could propel me to\u00a0inspired action. There have been times when I have attempted to enlist others in my rants. It is part of my test of the emergency sanity system, asking &#8220;Am I totally off my rocker and have my lost marbles rolled under the sofa?&#8221; It&#8217;s then that they help me back up onto the chair and assist me in retrieving the elusive orbs.<\/p>\n<p>These days, I give myself\u00a0permission to\u00a0throw occasional pity parties. I don&#8217;t stay\u00a0very long when I realize I am the only guest there. Mine include some of the above; definitely chocolate which is my drug of choice,\u00a0(being a teetotaler, my &#8216;wine&#8217; translates instead to &#8216;whine&#8217;), huddling under the covers with a good book, writing my way clear through the\u00a0morass and muck. In gratidudinosity mode when I consider that writing is a huge healing balm\u00a0at times that\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure where else to put the feelings of failure that occasionally arise and the\u00a0gremlins of not enough-ness that come to call.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bad Day\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gH476CxJxfg\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Day by Daniel Powter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to giggle when I saw this meme, created by Theresa Byrne, another\u00a0contributor to The Good Men Project, \u00a0since it was sucked right out of my spinning mind. 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