this is turning into a good thread.

i wake up every morning and i put my pants on one leg at a time. i think to myself 'its another day' and treat it as such. i go to work, and do the best i can at my job and treat it as my time outside the house. i take advantage of EVERY MOMENT i have there. i work out regularly. there is NO stress reliever like physical exertion. i do A LOT of cardio - at least an hour every session. i run for 30 minutes and do 30 minutes on the eliptical. and i push myself harder every time i go.

i read books - nonfiction. at try to at least read one a month. biographies here or there, and af course studying takes up a bit of time.

that is a BIG part of how i deal with my situation. do i care about 'anyone else would have left by now' comments? sometimes.... they do make me think. but then i look at how people in the last 20-30 years treat personal commitment. IMHO we are a self-serving society - or we are at least very rapidly becoming that way. we don't care about how our comments or treatment of others effects them because a great percentage of people these days are out for themselves.

i'm not saying that there are NO selfless people out there...... it just seems like there are less of them - especially when i look at my grandparents generation and compare it to the current.

its VERY hard to not just pack my bags and leave. trust me i've often considered it. i do know that her condition is not her fault - and its something i am sure that she deals with much more than i probably do.