My dear what dosent kill you makes only makes you stranger.

So true.

Did ya think about not caring what others think and influencing your own stars??? Tell them to bite the big one, and that not everybody's life operates with their own little parameters. You are an individual and should rejoice in your individuality!!

I was wondering why i am so strange????

Now ya know!

I keep saying that its getting too much
But I know Im a liar
Feeling all right in the noise and the light
But thats what lights my fire

I have found when life sucks it is usually related to the people I bring in my life and my choices. Not saying I have mastered it but some changes have seem to help.

When I've worked on bringing and keeping an easyier type of people in my life things over all just seem less of a pain.

When my definition of friendship got a lot tougher some people didn't make the grade. Funny thing about it even if I missed them they didn't seem to take long finding someone new to put the touch on. Suddenly the wisdom of "a Friend a Borrower will never be." or "A true friend tells us the truth's we don't want to hear." and that "Friendships are grown; not found." started making sense.

Also practiceing a little indepedent preventive maintainence on the the things that make life a drag without helps me out. Not putting all my eggs all in one basket helpes me cut my losses. Sometimes that means a little more conservative a lifestyle than I could afford to live but not being forced into a corner relieves a lot of stress.

Last I know I can't prevent every rotten thing that is going to come down the pike at me so I have tried to work on my copeing skills. I have found that the more popular ones; drinking, spending money, food ect. are not real effective. I suppose what works for some is different than for others but having or knowing how to find solutions takes some of the fear out of life.