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Originally Posted by lastlonelychild
To Lauru: Thank you for the encouragement and the beautiful words. I wish I could take it into my heart that that's why I'm here. I've sincerely tried. But it seems like every time I've made anything remotely resembling "progress," I get knocked flat down. And now at 56, it's too hard to get back up. Maybe God doesn't want me to be here anymore, and I need to accept that now?
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Goodness no. God wants you here. That is your low self esteem and depression talking. As for getting knocked back down after progress, I think that is the challenge of life for everybody. Simply put, it is the nature of the "beast"/life. You can make it through. And at 56 you are definitely NOT too old. We are not too old, until the day we die. As long as we are breathing there is always hope and progress, as well as backsliding. Try giving yourself some slack. You are worth it.
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Lauru-------------That's me, Bipolar and Watching TV 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
---Robert Frost