Title of this thread in response to the ever kind Jeep's encouragement. Where I'm standing, the road doesn't look paved with gold, can't imagine it ever being, more like tacky brass, but at least I'm still standing and not sprawled in a miserable heap as I was a few months ago. Fellow newbies, the knife still twists in your chest but amazingly, you get used to it, you can bear it better.
Thank you, 2016. That tacky brass you are seeing is gold...just covered with dust, that's all. The fact that you are standing (and posting better, BTW) and not sprawled in a miserable heap tells us that you are doing just fine. Keep it up! OWN THE ROAD!
Now, about that knife. I can't give good news on that one, as the ex's ghost owned me this weekend. I'm afraid that knife will always be there...we just have to compartmentalize it - do that, and you're golden.
Your posts are light years ahead of when you started. Keep up the good work. Don't look for the gold to hard, just know its there.
There are moments in this life when you are so confident in the rightness of your actions, that not even for a second do you consider the option that you might be wrong.
