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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 437618" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>WELL FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMEN!!!!! and GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!! </p><p></p><p>Steely - I can't see this as a (((((((BAD)))))))) thing. I mean.....(scratches head) (exhales) You know when you are in really deep trouble like - your car breaks down in the middle of the night on the side of a dark and stormy road, it's raining cats and dogs sideways and you are left without a spare tire and you have like three life lines left on your cell phone and you think 'okay I need - a tire, a tire iron, some gas, a flashlight, possibly a rain suit, some reflective triangles, and I could use a Pepsi and some crackers I am hungry a few dollars to stay at the next motel - nothing fancy. I mean you have sat there in the worst possible scenario and you have REALLY put some thought into exactly WHAT you need in YOUR situation, and you know you have to call the THREE TOP people that would SURELY come to your aid - because In the past????? YOU have been there for THOSE three people - NOT NOT NOT that we do favors FOR favors - but you just figure - people would want to help you because you helped them and it's the RIGHT THING TO DO - (RIGHT? RIGHT!!) </p><p></p><p>So you start calling on your cell phone.......and it's thundering and lightening - and you are afraid and getting scared as you sit there on that mountain road in your car - worried about never getting off that mountain in that car of yours and you call the FIRST person that will surely help you. AND????? NOPE. They can't, they make excuses, and you say "Okay, okay thanks anyway." But in your heart and mind? You're like - "ORLY? Well you jerk - lets think about all the things I've done in the past for you and let me think about the next time YOU call ME for help - I mean I have two chances left I'm scared, I'm worried out of my mind - I'm in dire straights here@" So you call the NEXT person that came to mind after careful, CAREFUL consideration.....and "NOPE----they have "SOMETHING" that well - they just can't get out of....."And the same thing about helping them and when YOU needed them they just can't get out of a DINNER? TO COME HELP YOU ON A MOUNTIAIN ROAD IN A STORM WITH NO GAS AND A FLAT? OMG ARE THEY SERIOUS? WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT A DINNER OR YOU SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ARE THEY REALLY SERIOUS DO THEY NOT GET THAT YOU ARE BEGGING FOR HELP? So with your hands shaking? You call the third and last chance you have ------and well - they say no too and at this point? It's not even anger that you feel, it's betrayal, and lonlieness because as you hang up the phone - you sit there and think - (just like you are now about your childhood home, and Matt, and your Mom, sister, and Dad) -----HOW can I be there for EVERYONE else and NO ONE ELSE is EVER THERE for me???????? SO I'm sitting here in my car, on a mountain, out of gas, flat tire, and WHO IS HERE FOR ME?????? </p><p></p><p>YOU! You are there for you. You are going to figure out - HOW to get down off that mountain.....You are going to figure out HOW to fix that flat. You are going to figure out HOW to get back to your car with gas, and fill it up, get a tire on that car - and get that vehicle back to your house. YOU. NOT the people that YOU have helped...I mean it would have been nice if that HAD come to help you, but in the end ? What this whole thing (life) is teaching you is that the one person that YOU can rely on when everything else around you is falling down is YOU. Does it make ya a little angry when you think - Well this is my family and those are my friends and I THOUGHT I could depend on them to help me with - X,Y.Z? Well sure.....because we just assume that everyone we love, or help - would want to do so in kind. In theory that would be great......but in reality? The one person you can depend on in this world, the ONE person that you can rely on? The ONE person that will NEVER EVER let you down, and the ONE PERSON THAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ABOVE ALL OTHERS - MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY and EMOTIONALLY FOR HOW LONG NOW?????? IS........Y-O-U. </p><p></p><p>I don't say the flat out blunt things I say to be mean and callous.....I say TAKE CARE OF YOU FIRST - because - YOU HAVE TO. Because NO ONE ELSE IS going to - and NOW? You are seeing this first hand. When I tell people to GO to therapy and STAY in therapy - It's not because I think they're nuts. Or go to a hospital and get tests - I don't think they are crazy....It's because IF SOMETHING is wrong with SOMEONE........WHO ELSE IS going to take care of you? BUT YOU? People are selfish beings. They want what they want for THEM......not necessarily for others. To find someone in this world that genuinely cares about others and their wellbeing is rare. So when I tell you or anyone else that I wish you would appreciate YOU as much as I do - I mean it. There is only ONE OF YOU - and you need to start realising what a WONDERFUL unique incredible empowered person you are - WITHOUT ANYONE ELSE......all by your onesies - no drama - no conflama - and for the first time in ....UGH ------like forever that I've known you??? This is the first time I've seen you frustrated enough to admit - </p><p></p><p>YOU WANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOU FIRST! and I HAVE TO SAY ----------WTFG! STEELY!!!! I AM SO BLOODY PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!! </p><p></p><p>NOW MAKE IT STICK! BOY STAYS IN IDAHO - MOM STAYS IN PORTLAND - TAKE THE GARAGE BOXES ONE AT A TIME _ AND JUST TAKE CARE OF ........<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000000">STEELY!!!!!!!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000000">HOORah!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 437618, member: 4964"] WELL FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMEN!!!!! and GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!! Steely - I can't see this as a (((((((BAD)))))))) thing. I mean.....(scratches head) (exhales) You know when you are in really deep trouble like - your car breaks down in the middle of the night on the side of a dark and stormy road, it's raining cats and dogs sideways and you are left without a spare tire and you have like three life lines left on your cell phone and you think 'okay I need - a tire, a tire iron, some gas, a flashlight, possibly a rain suit, some reflective triangles, and I could use a Pepsi and some crackers I am hungry a few dollars to stay at the next motel - nothing fancy. I mean you have sat there in the worst possible scenario and you have REALLY put some thought into exactly WHAT you need in YOUR situation, and you know you have to call the THREE TOP people that would SURELY come to your aid - because In the past????? YOU have been there for THOSE three people - NOT NOT NOT that we do favors FOR favors - but you just figure - people would want to help you because you helped them and it's the RIGHT THING TO DO - (RIGHT? RIGHT!!) So you start calling on your cell phone.......and it's thundering and lightening - and you are afraid and getting scared as you sit there on that mountain road in your car - worried about never getting off that mountain in that car of yours and you call the FIRST person that will surely help you. AND????? NOPE. They can't, they make excuses, and you say "Okay, okay thanks anyway." But in your heart and mind? You're like - "ORLY? Well you jerk - lets think about all the things I've done in the past for you and let me think about the next time YOU call ME for help - I mean I have two chances left I'm scared, I'm worried out of my mind - I'm in dire straights here@" So you call the NEXT person that came to mind after careful, CAREFUL consideration.....and "NOPE----they have "SOMETHING" that well - they just can't get out of....."And the same thing about helping them and when YOU needed them they just can't get out of a DINNER? TO COME HELP YOU ON A MOUNTIAIN ROAD IN A STORM WITH NO GAS AND A FLAT? OMG ARE THEY SERIOUS? WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT A DINNER OR YOU SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ARE THEY REALLY SERIOUS DO THEY NOT GET THAT YOU ARE BEGGING FOR HELP? So with your hands shaking? You call the third and last chance you have ------and well - they say no too and at this point? It's not even anger that you feel, it's betrayal, and lonlieness because as you hang up the phone - you sit there and think - (just like you are now about your childhood home, and Matt, and your Mom, sister, and Dad) -----HOW can I be there for EVERYONE else and NO ONE ELSE is EVER THERE for me???????? SO I'm sitting here in my car, on a mountain, out of gas, flat tire, and WHO IS HERE FOR ME?????? YOU! You are there for you. You are going to figure out - HOW to get down off that mountain.....You are going to figure out HOW to fix that flat. You are going to figure out HOW to get back to your car with gas, and fill it up, get a tire on that car - and get that vehicle back to your house. YOU. NOT the people that YOU have helped...I mean it would have been nice if that HAD come to help you, but in the end ? What this whole thing (life) is teaching you is that the one person that YOU can rely on when everything else around you is falling down is YOU. Does it make ya a little angry when you think - Well this is my family and those are my friends and I THOUGHT I could depend on them to help me with - X,Y.Z? Well sure.....because we just assume that everyone we love, or help - would want to do so in kind. In theory that would be great......but in reality? The one person you can depend on in this world, the ONE person that you can rely on? The ONE person that will NEVER EVER let you down, and the ONE PERSON THAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ABOVE ALL OTHERS - MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY and EMOTIONALLY FOR HOW LONG NOW?????? IS........Y-O-U. I don't say the flat out blunt things I say to be mean and callous.....I say TAKE CARE OF YOU FIRST - because - YOU HAVE TO. Because NO ONE ELSE IS going to - and NOW? You are seeing this first hand. When I tell people to GO to therapy and STAY in therapy - It's not because I think they're nuts. Or go to a hospital and get tests - I don't think they are crazy....It's because IF SOMETHING is wrong with SOMEONE........WHO ELSE IS going to take care of you? BUT YOU? People are selfish beings. They want what they want for THEM......not necessarily for others. To find someone in this world that genuinely cares about others and their wellbeing is rare. So when I tell you or anyone else that I wish you would appreciate YOU as much as I do - I mean it. There is only ONE OF YOU - and you need to start realising what a WONDERFUL unique incredible empowered person you are - WITHOUT ANYONE ELSE......all by your onesies - no drama - no conflama - and for the first time in ....UGH ------like forever that I've known you??? This is the first time I've seen you frustrated enough to admit - YOU WANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOU FIRST! and I HAVE TO SAY ----------WTFG! STEELY!!!! I AM SO BLOODY PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!! NOW MAKE IT STICK! BOY STAYS IN IDAHO - MOM STAYS IN PORTLAND - TAKE THE GARAGE BOXES ONE AT A TIME _ AND JUST TAKE CARE OF ........[SIZE=5][COLOR=#000000]STEELY!!!!!!! HOORah![/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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