A bunch of useless crap
Just Venting My Frustrations Folks
Published on May 9, 2005 By MasonM In Blogging
This article is just me venting my frustrations. If you're looking for something interesting to read you may want to move on to something else. This ain't it.

I've been struggling to keep a positive attitude since my car wreck. Today it just isn't possible. The frustration of sitting around with nothing productive to do, the physical, legal, and financial consequences of my wreck weigh heavy on me today.

I took a walk with my constant companions cane and pain. I walked down to the end of the street and back. A total of about 2 blocks. That's the farthest I've walked so far using just the cane and should have made me happy. But it was pure will power and stubborness that got me back again. The pain was awful.

I hate the cane. Where I go, it goes. It reminds me that at least for a while yet I'm a cripple and seemingly not worth employing in some productive work. I hate the fact that I have no means of transportation other than a worn out old mountain bike with only half the gears working and which I can't even ride right now. Last time I tried to ride it I was unable to walk at all for nearly 3 days.

I have stubbornly refused to let this situation get me down. And until now I've done pretty good about it. But in large part perhaps it has just been denial of the real nature of situation. I have no place of my own. No privacy. I live in a recliner by day, a sofa bed by night, and in pain all the time. All in the living room.

Employment prospect look very gloomy. In all of my life I have never had trouble getting a job. Sometimes it may not have been a very good job, but I've always been able to find something until a better one came along. I feel like maybe I've used it all up. I've reached the end of the yellow brick road only to find it leads to an outhouse.

I don't expect anyone to have actually read all of this crap to this point, or to even give a shit. Just venting.

Comments
on May 09, 2005
venting good, stuffing feelings bad... get me?
on May 09, 2005
I read it all Mason...been there too. Pain was my companion for the longest time...I was only able to get through those black days because of the knowledge that it was temporary. i had a great support system, family and friends that just didn't let me get down.
Mason, take strength in the fact that you are doing well... you are walking. Those two blocks today were a struggle, but nothing comes easy in life to most of us. You will get there my friend, I know you will. We are all there with you Mason...cheering you on to get as far as you want, without that cane and without the pain. You can do it kid!
on May 09, 2005
I read. I "listened". I care.
I do wish my brain had the right words to encourage you tthrough another day!
You CAN make it Mason!
Some nights are more mind wrecking than others...
I don't know you well enough yet to know if you're a "believer" or not, I once read something that said that "when God closes
one door, He opens another.
It's the getting through the door that hurts so much.
Hang in there guy, people love you.
on May 09, 2005
venting good, stuffing feelings bad... get me?

Yeah. Thanks.

You will get there my friend, I know you will.

Probably. Just having "one of those days".

Thanks Trudy. Just one of those frustrated days.

Like the old saying goes: "Life sucks and then you die". Seems appropriate today. Tomorrow is another day.