A Fight With My Own Self... I Will BeVictorious

@thesids (22180)
Bhubaneswar, India
March 31, 2011 3:54am CST
Hi Lotters Of late I realized that I am more unhappy, more lazy and more late than the recent years. I was analyizing what has been happening with me in the real world and fout out the main reason for this - I was starting to take the life as it was coming to me... But hey, I am not this who gives up so very easily... I have always been a fighter. WAIT. Before you draw conclusions, I am a fighter with my own self (I cannot dare to fight out with anyone else coz I love all and also I have a fragile boky figure) I got myself a Diary, have penned down my objectives and the plans I want to take up and recover from this lazy, dull and not so happening life. Life Smiles at me and says - Ha, So you weakling are ready for another fight! Good for it but I am sure it will be the life's ego and I am more smart to win for sure. I have already started implementing a few of the changes and I hope that soon I would be back at my real self - a Happy Person who does things on time, sees the brighter stuff, and makes thing happening for myself... Have you ever been with a fight which involved you and your own self? If you can share, it will definitely boost me and give me some more ammo to continue the fight if it takes longer. Cheeers, theSids
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• United States
31 Mar 11
Hi thesids I am on a daily battle with me. Yes, you read that right. I have many offline issues that I do not divulge easily, all I can say is that although it is truly difficult to be someday, the mere fact that I am allowed to awake the next day is a true sign of positive blessings! Once I realize I am alive again today it helps me to remember that perhaps it may be my last. Feeling it may be my last I do all I can to muddle through my negative feelings. I do well the early part of the day and as the day lingers I am brought down by my vicious thoughts. However thesids, nightfall's and I cannot help but wonder if perhaps I will be blessed tomorrow. So far thesids I awake the next day blessed again! Having said that my dear friend let us both continue to remember that positive energy is what continues to allow us to thrive and look forward to another blessed day.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi GF Dear this is what I want too to happen for me. Of late, I was kind of feeling really low with so many factors involved. Somewhere I lost the track and realized that I am heading the wrong way. I am happy though the realization came sooner and I still have time to return back to the good or right paths where I can be positive and happy. my dear friend let us both continue to remember that positive energy is what continues to allow us to thrive and look forward to another blessed day. amen
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
20 Apr 11
GF: As always, your words here did do miracles for me and I was changed and am happy. The "look forward to another blessed day" - it did work out
• United States
20 Apr 11
Hello my dear thesids I am glad that on a daily basis we can share our ups and downs. That we can share a few hugs and know that life regardless if we want will always carry on. I am very proud to be your friend because when you are sad I am sad, when you are happy, I am happy. Together we help the both of us and so many others through our words have hope. Thank you my friend for my BR. I am re-reading my response and your comment and know that I am smiling knowing that the both of us care so much for others because one day someone will read then and say, there is hope for tomorrow.
• Philippines
31 Mar 11
hello thesids! It's good to hear that you are trying your best to get back on your track. My advice is never give up on life, always have inspirations to continue in life like your family, friends, etc. because it will boost up your motivation in life. At my early age, I've experienced lot of trials in life, that made me more strong and better person. My formula? Always think positive and don't give up. If you know the law of attraction, it will help you a lot. Try to read "The Secret".
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi brixtin Yes dear that is so very true... A little of the Positive Attitude does take you a long long way... and I was quite positive and hopeful... I believe the brighter days are ahead and it just needs a bit of patience that I am always low on Is that "The Secret" A Book? Author's Name would be a great help... though I would try to get this one, the author's name wouldmake it easier (lazy me?)
• Philippines
31 Mar 11
:D no problem with that... Good Luck and I hope you will enjoy that book...:))
@ifa225 (14364)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 11
Hello Sid, i am a fighter too it is good that you can beat that weakly. Now i had a fight with my self, to be a mother or leaving my family and be a career woman. it is hard to do both since i am only human. my body is as weak as you. i ever try to do that two things, but then i am sick. so i have to choose which one is the best for me. still in dilemma right now
@ifa225 (14364)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 11
Hi Sid, you have a good memory i had tried to work from home, but the money is not balance with the efforts and the times that i gave. i can't watch my kid's growth and what happen with them since i am too concentrate to that job. sometimes i feel jealous with those mothers who success in career also in their family...*sad
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi ifa OMG that is a tough decision to make for sure... But knowing you I am sure you are a wonderful mother (I have known it since the day I had the discussion about the Avatar and you had mentioned something from which I can say this for sure ). So now when you plan to start or re-start your career it may seem to even you that you are neglectingyour family and kid... but let me tell you one thing - I know this will not happen with you - I mean the conflict may be there but you are definiteloy someone who would manage both to the best of your abilities. btw can I recommend you something? I hope you would not mind - why not try something that you can do from home? No, dont get me wrong but I am sure there can be options that would go well with you - just a thought, in case you have overlooked it.
• United States
31 Mar 11
Hi Sid, Dude! Even when I disagree with you, I can't help smiling! :O) You have such a wonderful sense of humor, which makes reading your posts such a pleasure. I only wish to add that your tongue-in-cheek approach doesn't worry me, because I know you understand that the real you is an awesome infinite being of unlimited wisdom and power. That's who you are, Sid. That's who we all are, but that part's not important, right now. That's who you are. The laziness you observe is merely an illusion with which you entertain yourself. As a magician, I remember an effect in which a red box is introduced. Out of the red box, a white box is removed. Then, the red box is closed and placed within the white box, which is now closed with what seems to be a larger box inside it. :P Do you understand how entertaining it must be for an infinite being to see the illusion of itself being stuck in a limited (even lazy) form? You are an infinite creator, Sid. So fighting with yourself is not necessary. An illusion cannot fight itself. And an infinite being has no need to fight against a limited illusion. And, surely, a limited illusion cannot fight a real infininte being. Rather, remember who you really are and allow your illusive finite mundane self to harmonize with the infinite power of who you really are. Your expanded self enjoys everything about your life. Your mundane self is of great worth, actually, as it is the Explorer Self who dives into the complexity of the illusion to declare preferences, which your expanded self then enjoys to the fullest. Your tiny Explorer Self is always invited to join in this party of its own making. So appreciate the wonderful things about yourself, about your world. Like your Expanded Self, always approve of yourself and of all. I met a wonderful old woman at a job who said, "I love everything," about food and "I love everybody" about people. Light shone from this beautiful plump woman's eyes. I look forward to seeing her again. What a magnificent spirit! You are just as abundant a spirit, Sid! Celebrate your awesomeness! It is an excellent game to play. :O) Sunshine & Blessings, Giovani
• United States
1 Apr 11
Hey Nishant, Thank you for your appreciation. :O) I see its application helping you to enjoy life thoroughly. Sid is in good company with encouraging friends like you. Sunshine & Blessings, Giovani
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Oh my dear gsaintiny I needed you and here you are... I wished I could reach out easier and on time... I am soooo very happy to see you on this post I am feeling 100% better reading thse great words from you. No, not the ego and I am not flattered either. It is about showing me the right thing at the right moment... many a times, we get ourselves into the regular acts thatdrain us out kind of thing and a low phase that seems the best to blame... Your advice -[i] Your mundane self is of great worth, actually, as it is the Explorer Self who dives into the complexity of the illusion to declare preferences, which your expanded self then enjoys to the fullest. Your tiny Explorer Self is always invited to join in this party of its own making. So appreciate the wonderful things about yourself, about your world. Like your Expanded Self, always approve of yourself and of all.[/i] meant a lot and would surely help me find back what I started to miss out for sure
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@nishant5n (1067)
• India
31 Mar 11
Hello Giovani, Very impressive ideas. We must always look forward to improve ourselves and should always have a positive attitude towards life and other people. Thanks for sharing your views. They are extremely encouraging and enthusiastic. Hello Sid, I hope Giovani's words will help a lot in your fight with yourself.
@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
31 Mar 11
I am also a person like you sids. I always have things to fight with me. i am a cool and loving person for others. But, I doubt am I good for me. No. never I am not good for me. My laziness makes me bad.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi john Hmmm I have a similar set of things going on right now over the past few days or weeks... I am unhappy about the way this has crept in around me and I am not going to let it survive longer for sure... Hence I have decided on some important facts and I think the coming days would get me on the right paths again... as they say - back on track
@Jotomy (6322)
• India
31 Mar 11
Hi johnpillai, how are you. Laziness will always makes us inactive.
@zralte (4178)
• India
31 Mar 11
That's the best fight of all. Seriously, I am fighting with myself everyday to stay positive and to look at brighter side of things. It is so difficult in today's world to stay cheerful and happy at all times. Don't give up the fight. If it looks like you are losing, remember we are all here to pick you up.
• India
31 Mar 11
Hi dear, In fact my views won’t make you any good and I never advise me anyone to follow my theory of living. I can advise as and how people want I managed to do so. But, when I look back into myself, it is just a hand full of desipre and emptiness only. For all others, I am a good and really a great model for their life, but I don’t know where I made the mistake and how I become like this. Just holding all good and nice qualities assembled in a man and his life become meaningless at levels. It is not just a myLot discussion and I don’t want to others to read also. As I know that other than you, people don’t look others comments in detail. I always seeks some extra hope in your talks always and you still trying to reach somewhere still on top. Forgetting all the short comings and drawbacks, just striving and diving forward to catch something in front of us. This diving is the must to go forward. In fact I don’t have anything in my hand for you and I am null at this moment and I don’t know what I felt to tell you today. Sid, life always smiles and to give a smile back is possible but there may be few drops of water comes out from the yes, what is it meant by? Thank-s
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi zralte I know somewhere my friends that I have earned from MyLot will support me and I can count on you If i could remove the last month or so I think, staying happy and positive is quite easy for me as I do not have that great expectations from anything or anyone. @thanks Yes, life always smiles back but this time it got me tears and I did not like that... I have always wanted and thought life toget me smiles as I think it has already given me enough of that "tears" thing... I now need tears of joy and happiness
@zralte (4178)
• India
31 Mar 11
I am going through a very difficult time as well. What I have read and written in myLot really gives me positive outlook though. Just the other day, I was feeling really down, but then I remembered what I wrote here and thought if I can't be positive, then I really would be a hypocrite. I don't want that...so I tried to find a positive thing to look forward to and started thinking about my blessings. That really helped.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
31 Mar 11
hello dear sids, There is always a reason to fight for (in this life) There was a time in my life that i felt all alone. But my kids gives me enough reason to live. They are my booster,my guide and my light (thu sometimes gives me headache ) Just look at your wife,isn't she fighting for you? Always consider her,she never gave up and always stays by your side. She's worth enough, for you to love and fight for whatever spider web's in your head (wake up dear bhai) keep smiling...
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi didi You are quite right - I have a loving wife and she is fightingout there for me. I admire her. But somewhere I think I started taking things for granted and this is why I need to change... I mean I cannot let her alone in this fight and I need to stand by her and contribute to the fight too... This is why I have re-started kind of planning done. My laziness seems to play a hinderance and I am going to fix it soon...
@Jotomy (6322)
• India
31 Mar 11
Hi jai, you always give good response jai.
• United States
1 Apr 11
personal philosophy - just another one of my tags I use to define that bit of myself
That's been a lifelong endeavor. Of late moreso. Last year I went through congestive heart failure which left me quite weak and tired regularly and, for a short (very) I gave in to the po' little boy attitude that was handed to me until I decided that the stubborn that had brought the condition about in the first place would be the stubborn that got me beyond it..Its not so easy all the time. The depression is persistent in the wake of an inability to do even simple work and produce income, which makes things rather difficult for Liz and, in its turn, for me to see the stress she contends with too regularly..On the positive side, because of that stubborn I've exceeded expectations in my physical comeback, surprising the doctors as to the level of progress but, as my grandma used to say, 'There's the good days and then there's the other ones.'. There's a lot of the other ones. Sometimes I breach them. Sometimes I don't and the depression starts again. Luckily, the stubborn won't let i ty win as often as it had over the last months..Progress!! Enjoy!
@ebuscat (5935)
• Philippines
31 Mar 11
For me it is worse very so sad to think but be careful you must love your self.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi ebuscat Yes, the pensive stuff needs to go and I need to see the other shades soon... before it gets late
• China
31 Mar 11
My friend,you are that kind of person that is strict in dissecting himself ideologically.Here there is a old saying, one who knows other people is a wise person;one who know himself is a sensible person.There is some reason in what It said.In fact,easier said than done,It is difficult for us to know ourself.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi changjiangzhibin True and righfully said - "I am my worst critic" and I dont know if I should be that way or not but this time I feel that things if unattended will make me weaker in the longer run and that would worsen the situation. I also know that when you start walking or try to get back on the right track, the negavtives that you have gotton used to would keep pulling you towards them... making it more difficult.... But I have already made my start and hope that I win eventually
@Austee (131)
2 Apr 11
I adore you for being a fighter. It seems I am not like that much. But I strive to fight for life's challenges. Keep up the good works and be positive always!
@macayadann (1235)
• Philippines
2 Apr 11
boredom draws us back but will to survive definitely holds us firmly to stand against all odds. These two fight deep within me.
@Maulik58 (71)
• India
31 Mar 11
Life = fightinig - winning - losing fighting is more important rather than winning and losing... One should immediatly perform or act rather than taking decision to get out of all lazzyness... And last important to have one Teacher in life...we call GURU
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi maulik Welcome to mylot dear. Yes, you are quite right that life is about everything... but at times, I get on the wrog side and start thinking life is about losing... It has never been a healthy thought for anyone... and so for me too... I need to get to the other side now where life was good and great
31 Mar 11
Today I feel like fighting.Not sure if it's also a fight with myself. I do not really go into fight with someone in physical, though I do with words (if provoked) and thoughts. I feel like fighting to wade off the bad influences into my system.Those influences are mainstream and all around me, many times I just decide that I can't trust anyone. I know it's wrong, but they are not showing me the light. I am not really confident that I can do it on my own, but I'd rather be alone. Perhaps it's because I am weak. I do not know how to handle people, much more to be tasked to educate people...I myself need to be educated, and to look back and straighten up things where they are not straight. And I cannot do it with them, it's painful, it's more than what is necessary. I do not deserve this.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
31 Mar 11
Hi Stranger Quite a name to start with at MyLot but dear as you stay here longer, I am sure you would not be a Stranger anymore to many... Welcome to MyLot dear... A happening place on the Internet. I can very well understand what you say coz I have been there kind of thing for me too... The only thing... it happened quite late and at this age, I have a lot more to do than I can... Never mind... the tough days are limited and I am sure I would be in the bright light zone soon... I hope you too would find the right approach and give the odd times a good fight and then maybe we can have our time together in that bright lighted zone
• United States
1 Apr 11
Me too!!! To clue you in on me: I was dx'd with multiple sclerosis June 1998. After a couple months of feeling sorry for myself, I decided I wanted to beat it and I've been fighting it ever since. I was SO made when I had a relapse in September 2008--after ten years without a significant relapse, I was considered to be in remission and when it ended, I was MAD! When the recession AND my relapse hit me at once, I hit rock bottom. I had the worst year of my life so far (2008), one that saw me begging for food and money from family and friends, rely on my dad to house me for a time, and to live in fear my transportation would be taken from me. I was hospitalized that fall briefly and almost wanted to stay because I actually had healthier food to eat (and more!) than I had at home! I even got a call about a job while I was admitted! Things were looking up... I was forced to move in January 2009 and my job was already not working well--the manager cut my hours from 25 to 4 before I got a new supervisor who 'found' 10 hours a week for me. But I noticed a sign for jobs closer to my home and I applied right away. I got it and gave my employer a week's notice--just before I was to work two full-time weeks. But it was still a job for significantly less pay then I was used to. I switched positions there, and the second job I loved--I even started to get stronger. But it STILL wasn't enough money to live off of. Then my roommate's girlfriend wrote me a bad check, so I began to look for a new job AND a new place to live. I found both, although it took two jobs before I found my current position. I also found someone to love me and began my new life in December 2010. I haven't given up yet, nor will I. When I look at how hard my life is now compared to where I was two years ago, I'm grateful. It's not perfect but I'm on easy street now! Keep fighting Sid!
@derek_a (10874)
1 Apr 11
There is always a fight with the Self, but many people are not aware of it. I have practiced meditation for the past 30+ years and through a developing awareness manage to transcend the fight with the Self that comes form the condition ego-mind that takes on society's shoulds and should-nots. _Derek
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
1 Apr 11
Good on you...thesids! I'm sure you will be victorious! I myself always been an up and go person...but now I Am retired from work I find my self getting lazy...also I have a lot to do some times I just procrastinate and leave things for tomorrow...but then I thought I was never this way before so why now? so I had a very good look at my self and gave my self a kick in the backside [ literally of course] and say get going woman age is not going to catch up with you!. Cheers and good luck
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
1 Apr 11
Hi thesids! I have been in constant battle with myself..LOL..I am a hand full. I am pretty spontanous and I have really had to take control of that. I am also very spirited and that can be an issue if it's not controlled. I am very honest and I have had to learn to be careful about the way I say things depending on my time and place. Good luck with your fight...you can do it..
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
1 Apr 11
I never experience that events into my life. You must trust yourself to do something that even impossible can do... Life really full of wonderful thing. I don't know what the real explanation why all those things happen to every individuals but at the end we can find answers...
@shibham (16977)
• India
1 Apr 11
Hi mamu.. Nice to hear that yoou have a fighting spirit. For me, no. I am highly adamant and desperate. I dont care whats wrong or right around me and i am sure, i have the abilities to overcome it except my drinking habit. lol. If you are energetic from mind and brain, then need not to fight back. Most often, we become desperate by some stuffs and at that situation i take them easily which help me to take a decision quickly. have a nice day.