The last week or so have been a bit of an up and down time for me.. for various reasons that I do not really 
want to go into in any depth but Ive gone from being extremely happy to being desperately sad and then through friendships (old and new) that I have made, back to being in a place that feels positive and even a little exciting!
Sometimes things do not turn out as you hope in life, that, as they say “is life” and sometimes it gives you a hard little nip on the bum. How we choose to deal with this is all about attitude. I have learned over the many up and downs in my life that nothing, no matter how bad, or how good it feels, will ever stay that way. Things change, we change, life moves on.
What we are left with are memories that we can keep with us, take with us and learn from. These memories, good or bad do shape our future and hopefully we will remember them from time to time.
I know I will.
Brae. A gay woman's tale! 
Jun 03, 2011 @ 05:44:40
I agree entirely with you….
Sometimes we can choose the path we take and so can accept the consequences easily. Sometimes a chain of events beyond our control forces us onto a path which we would not have normally walked and so facing those consequences is much harder and leaves a much bitter taste in the mouth.
Whichever path we walk and whatever the outcome we learn….. the more difficult the path the more significant the learning. This learning eventually takes us to a place we like to be and want to be…our comfort zone! That lovely, squidgy, warm, snuggly, happy, safe, secure nest that we all want to live in and stay in is strongly built of twigs and sticks, each of these twigs and sticks has a name – sadness, anger, failure, abuse, difficult, hurt, lonely, pain, ill, loss, grief and so on but because of these negative aspects of life we are able to recognise and access the staggering beauty, fun, colour, community and peace that is the wonderful world we all live on!
Jun 03, 2011 @ 05:59:10
Yorkie .. that is a lovely verbal picture of life… and so true