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Is is "Me" or is it Memorex? Reality evolves...

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BA-Music, MM-Music Theory, married with 1 daughter, 25...

58 years old, love to listen to music, travel with my husband (rare...

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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Hi - I am constantly finding myself in the situation of trying to re-connect or re-create some event (be it journaling, a retreat, an activity, a relationship) from the past that simply doesn't work anymore for me.  And that can get frustrating and discouraging, until I call myself back into th...
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    Lene Andersen
    Sunday, August 02, 2009 at 11:16 PM

    I hear you. I waste so much energy trying to do what I used to be able to do and often forgetting to ask myself if it's something I really want to do. The good part is that I'm starting to figure out that I just don't have the energy levels (or even the interest) to do certain things and that is now been going on for so long that most of the time, I'm focusing on other things I have taken up that fit better with my current reality. Still, there are times when I get tricked into thinking that I want to do something I'm just not really into anymore. And then I remember the message of a great book called Only Forward - well, I can't even remember if it's freat anymore, just that it's no use going back. Only forward.

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    Ellen
    Monday, August 03, 2009 at 09:51 AM

    Haven't heard of that - I'll have to check it out!

    I sometimes say I'm in perpetual future shock -

    Ellen

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    Lene Andersen
    Monday, August 03, 2009 at 10:14 AM

    Very funny! 

     

    The book's sci-fi, written by Michael Marshall Smith.  Let me know if it's as good as I remember. Smile

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