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Hey!

Above, below and around.

Let's close the week on a personal note of no great consequence.

'I can't be the only one to get like this at times…' (and from client and other feedback this week, I know I'm not), consider it a 'you're not alone' thing.

Interesting thing, Life.

You have a run of 'bad luck', stuff not going to plan… some of it really bad. Personally. Family. Commercially.

You continue to pick yourself up, get over it… bounce back. Each 'event' depletes resources a little further. The next time, you take a little longer to get square again, using more energy and not getting 'as fully right' as before. And further hits hurt more.

A cumulative effect, it adds up. You use energy just trying 'not to slide'. You run to stand still. Then standstill.

Although it long-since ceased to be funny, you laugh anyway… smilin' as the shit comes down. Crash-and-burn tailspin, you dive to the ground—try to hit it harder so's you bounce a little higher.

And, around you, folk pile on expectations… their ideas of how 'you' should be.

Retreating inside, you reach for the dobro—decide to beat out a little blues number on the verandah. Then realise that was another life. No dobro. No verandah. Still got the blues though, so you flip another Peter Green cd into the music machine and carry on.

Yeah, sure, Life's fun…

And there's the 'other days' when, feeling fully refreshed, it's a case of 'bring me fresh cape and tights… I want to leap tall buildings in a single bound and fly faster than a speeding bullet'. Setting the controls for the heart of the sun, you push the sliders to max in 'green-across-the-board let's-red-zone-all-the-needles' bursts.

Life? It's a blast. And, despite struggling with it a bit-and-a-lot, I'm happy to be here. (Sometimes.)

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Filed by g on July 17 2009

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