Hey guys.
I’m super tired right now, and I’m discouraged and a little depressed, a little angry, and down on myself a good bit as well.
Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day.
Most of the day was actually really good, just the very end that sank my ship. So… This is all you get tonight. I’m sorry.
Better luck to me next time.
#1. I’m grateful for beautiful scenery.
#2. I’m grateful for water falls.
#3. I’m grateful the Civic is still working relatively well.
#4. I’m grateful I was able to find a way to jimmy rig my cruise control to work today.
#5. Grateful for good friends.
To be better…
Right now it might actually do me more harm to think about what I can do better.
~ stephen
Lift the World 
Big hugs, Stephen. When our thoughts have worn a groove deep enough to be renamed a ravine, it’s hard to stop going there. Once you’ve slipped back into it, it’s difficult to climb out. Until you realize you just need to make a groove of peace (your mantras?) that will eventually wear a path easy to find and just as difficult to leave. Or, in scientific terms, you have developed (nurtured) a strong neural pathway of sadness. Time to starve those neurons. The more you diverge from them, the weaker they’ll grow. They will atrophy. It’s not an overnight process, though, so chin up, flex your mental fingers and climb out of there! You’ve got this.