Photo taken in the United Arab Emirates posted courtesy of Akhilesh Sharma
June 17, 2002
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done"....Dale Carnegie.
This truly hits home with me. I honestly believe I had a very serious problem with online. I also believe MANY people have a problem with letting their time online and the friendships they build here....interfere with "real" life. I have already said I keep talking about it and putting things on here about myself in hopes that someone will let go of being here. And believe me when I say....If you get things in your "real" life set up for what you desire in the future....if you still want to be here....you will find the time and your real friends will still be here. I find it more difficult each month to share about myself, because it seems sooo in the past....like old news. However, I am encouraged by emails or guestbook entries by people who say they have had the same experience. I know that with each of us something different will inspire us to start caring about ourselves....and to take control of our lives....and so I share.
The following is taken from Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook....
"Work is the best narcotic...."
"Exactly fifty years ago my father gave me the words I have lived by ever since. He was a physician. I had just started to study law at the Budapest University. I failed one examination. I thought I could not survive the shame so I sought escape in the consolation of failure's closest friend, alcohol, always at hand: apricot brandy. My father called on me unexpectedly. Like a good doctor he discovered both the trouble and the bottle in a second. I confessed why I had to escape reality. The dear old man then and there improvised a prescription. He explained to him that there can be no real escape in alcohol or sleeping pills--or in any drug. For any sorrow, there is only one medicine, better and more reliable than all the drugs in the world: work! How right my father was! Getting used to work might be hard. Sooner or later you succeed. It has, of course, the quality of all the narcotics. It becomes habit-forming. And once the habit is formed, sooner or later, it becomes impossible to break one's self of it. I have never been able to break myself of the habit for fifty
years"....Ferenc Molnar.
As you know, for me the drug was online....and this piece by Ferenc Molnar truly speaks to me. Work!!! When I first left online, I was keeping on working a lot. I kept working a lot, but I moved out of my room and worked with everyone else. I had long days and longer evenings....and I felt as if I started getting to know my family. We worked together....it was wonderful. I started college full-time. There was no time to think, much less hang out online!!! Not much has changed. I have been working full-time ever since and going to school full time....mostly....and of course, I have added in working on these pages. This is a lot of my free time....and I love it :-) I also "work" at spending quality time with all the members of my family. Even when I am on the computer....it is set up in one of our spare rooms....sorta my mom's sitting room. And I am never alone when I work on my site. We visit, and share, and it has become a very special time for me :-)
song playing....The Glory of Love