Re: ADHD the fountain of youth!

[Anonymous]

And squirrel…wow. I feel exactly like you! MAYBE YOU ARE MY SISTER!!!! I feel that helplessness every day and have this incredible drive as well. However there is a fear that comes with that drive that I’m running out of time and then I don’t get anywhere because I’m trying frantically to figure out what my passion is and what I want to be, dipping my toes in this that and the other thing, never really mastering it completely because I think “CRAP!!! that’s going to take a long time to master! I’m 31…I can’t spend another 20 years trying to become the ruler of the world!!!! I need to be successful now!!!! I think we all just have to live in the moment and honestly just be grateful for where we are at this second. We are living in the future too much ..in this magnificent world we conjured up in our heads, so no wonder we are disappointed! It’s all an illusion at the moment! I am totally with you on the maturity thing as well…don’t change! What’s being mature anyway? As long as we can be mature where it matters…like not completely crawling on the tables during a meeting…or stealing people’s food from their grocery carts and throwing it behind us so we can take their place in line! I feel like I have to mold myself into what everyone thinks they are supposed to be like at a certain age and it’s not working! Embrace your zest for life and the energy you have. We need to stop justifying who we are and just love our quirks. It’s been a tough year for a lot of people…or years! Living in a state of limbo…trying to beat the clock…become something. I feel like I’m in the middle of a black hole with a haze around me….not seeing where to go. It’s a hard place to be, but we need to have faith that things will look up soon…our lives are what we make it. So we might as well stop trying to resist what’s being thrown our way. BAH!

Quotes my mom gave me the other day:

Let go of the past

“Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.”

– Asha Tyson

“The next message you need is right where you are.”

– Ram Dass

Valuing the moment

“… the only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Very few of us know how much we can put into life if we use it properly, wisely, and economically. Let us economize our time — lifetimes ebb away before we wake up, and that is why we do not realize the value of the immortal time God has given us.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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