(OCCASIONALLY) FEELING (JUST A LITTLE) SORRY FOR YOURSELF IS OK

"My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'"

Richard Branson, English businessman/investor

Never?

I'd like to believe Sir Richard on this but I don't.

If I did he would be like no human being I've ever known.

There are plenty of things we all must do we really, really don't want to do.

Allow yourself a quiet, brief pity party as you do yours, you've earned it.

But do make it brief.

BUMMER! GOT TO GO.

"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others."

Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BC) Writer/politician/roman orator

Be honest, you occasionally look for pity don't you?

I have; it's part of being human.

But you don't get much for being pitied, certainly not for long.

Ask for and get help when you need it but lead your life from a position of self-reliant strength.

Better to be admired for having done so than pitied for not.

Would You Pity Or Envy Me?

"If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity?"

Italian proverb

We envy what we know often without knowing what we don't know.