Archive for March, 2008
28
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Change, Conflict, Fear, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Love, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Poetry, Positive Thinking, Spirituality, Truth. Tagged: Change, Conflict, Fear, Honesty, Honor, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Love, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Poetry, Positive Thinking, Pride, Spirituality, Success, The Man You Ought to Be, Thomas E Brown, Truth. Leave a Comment
Have you ever thought on a lonely night of the man you ought to be?
Has your mind ever wandered into the past for clues to your destiny?
Are you measuring up to that awesome charge that was given you prior to birth, that foreordained call to serve the Universe well during your all too brief sojourn [...]
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28
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Change, Conflict, Depression, Fear, Hope, Life, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Truth. Tagged: Adversity, Change, Conflict, Depression, failure, Fear, fight, Hope, Life, Mental Health, Never give up, never quit, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Pride, Success, Truth. 3 Comments
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill.
When the funds are low and the debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit, rest if you must but “don’t you quit.”
Life is queer with its twists [...]
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28
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Blogging, Change, Drug Addiction, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Love, Narcissism, Narcissist, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Opinions, Personal Growth, Relationships, Truth. Tagged: Addiction, Blogging, Change, cheat, Drug Addiction, Honesty, Intimacy, judgment, Life, Love, Mental Health, Narcissism, Narcissist, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Opinions, Personal Growth, Relationships, Struggle for Self, The Man in the Glass, Truth. Leave a Comment
The Man in the Glass
When you get what you want in your struggle for Self, and the world makes you King for the day… Just go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that man has to say. For it isn’t your father or mother or partner upon whose judgment [...]
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24
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Boundaries, Conflict, Family, Fear, Honesty, Life, Personal Growth, Relationships. Tagged: All About Me, Boundaries, Conflict, confrontation, difficult times, dishonesty, Domestic Violence, Family, Fear, Gay, Honesty, Life, Mental Health, Personal Growth, problems, relationship, Relationships, Truth, Uncategorized. Leave a Comment
Maybe you can’t see the storm that lies just ahead. But I can. Believe me, it’s there.
Confronting issues openly and honestly can be difficult. Many, like me are afraid of the reaction they’ll get from the person they are confronting. With that fear firmly embedded in one’s psyche, looking the other way and [...]
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24
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in AIDS, Addiction, Boundaries, Conflict, Depression, Drug Addiction, Gay, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Narcissism, Narcissist, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Opinions, Personal Growth, Relationships, Suffering, Violence. Tagged: Addiction, AIDS, Boundaries, Conflict, Crystal Meth, Depression, Drug Addiction, Gay, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Homosexual, Mental Health, Narcissism, Narcissist, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Opinions, Personal Growth, Queer, Relationships, Suffering, Uncategorized, Violence. Leave a Comment
I have chosen to stand by the side of my partner who through no choice of his own is afflicted by mental illness. It goes without saying, that this affliction plays a major role in my life both individually and in relationship. Each day proves to be a difficult day for us. I have blogged [...]
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21
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Conflict, Honesty, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Opinions, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality, Truth, Viking Runes. Tagged: Conflict, Creativity and Music, Honesty, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Opinions, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality, Truth, Viking Runes. Leave a Comment
Truth
Distorted reality reflected off the pond’s mirror image
Moon showing, the Crescent proudly crowning the night
Stars were circling, Leo passed through Gemini all of it making little sense.
I heard the echo around me. Nothing is as it seems.
I was alone then for others understood not my power, no, I knew not how to control it.
So I [...]
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17
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Blogging, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Depression, Drug Addiction, Family, Fear, Friends, Friendship, Honesty, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Loneliness, Love, Personal Growth, Pets, Positive Thinking, Prayer, Relationships, Spirituality, Suffering. Tagged: Addiction, All About Me, Blogging, Boundaries, Change, codependency, Conflict, Crystal Meth, Depression, dogs, Domestic Violence, Drug Addiction, Family, Family of Choice, Fear, foreclosure, Friends, Friendship, homeless, Honesty, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Loneliness, Love, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Pets, pitbull, Positive Thinking, Prayer, Relationships, Spirituality, Suffering, Support, Vicious dog. 1 Comment
Fear thrives on distractions. Love thrives on presence. — Alan Cohen
February 19, 2008 was the date of my last blog. So much has happened since then. Much of the time I felt depressed. There were days that would run into one another. Long, endless days. Days in which I simply couldn’t or wouldn’t get out [...]
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