Breaking Into Prison

Attitude isn't everything, as you may have heard.  It's an awful lot of things, but there are still a few things, after you do the accounting.

Exceptions to every rule...

Indeed.  But a change in perspective can seem like it changes everything.  Maybe that's because everything is not a static idea.  Remember, everything changes.

Everything is something that is organic, is constantly being redefined in our minds.  From moment to moment, we learn new things that become part of our ever expanding universe.

Is everything a fact?  No, it is not static and unchanging.  Although sometimes everything seems to be figured out and set in stone.  Everything can feel like a fact sometimes.

Should we talk about anything and everything?  I could converse about the universe and theories that contain it, try to explain it in non-changing rigid labels.  But the universe is organic, too.  It's dynamic.  It's moving, evolving.  Infinite.

So.  To infinity and beyond, to borrow another line.  As long as I live, I change.  The paradigm shifts.  It is and yet it isn't.  Paradox exists now and again.

Feel free to share what you think of anything and everything.

I like pickles.  Dill more than bread and butter ones.

The Taste of Sanity

So I'm wondering today if everything I do is viewed through the bipolar lens, or if I'm just a regular guy that has bipolar moments in his life.

Comments?

*cricket sounds*

Okay.  How about we talk about Jersey Shore?

*insert din here*

I've looked back, not today, but before, at some of my posts and re-read them, with the thought of "I wrote this while I was manic," or "I wrote this while I was really depressed."  And I'm actually surprised by the writing.  It seems that through all the disabling feelings of depression and mania, I'm able to have a voice.  And it comes through regardless of how I'm feeling when I'm writing.  So it seems.

So press on, and do the work, regardless of how you feel.  It will show when you're feeling better.  There are some speedbumps and potholes, sure, but the over-arching theme of the work will come through, radiantly.

Or maybe I'm just manic now.

No.  I am hungry though.  So maybe that distracts and distorts my experience.  Do they have a pill for hunger yet?  Something I can take with my daily medication so I don't have to bother with all of this chronic eating?

Just kidding, of course.  I don't want to rid myself of the pleasure of eating.  But I do want to slow down and get a hold of myself when it comes to eating.  I could stand to not gain any more weight.  I'll be flirting with the 300lbs. mile marker if I keep on like I've been.

I really can't afford to eat the way that I have been.  Grabbing meals conveniently (read "fast food") just isn't convenient long term.  I can't afford it financially or physically.  And I pay a mental price, too.  Having a good nutritious diet is good medicine.

So for lunch today, I'm going to go out for Chinese food.

Hmm. 

What was I talking about?