Life hurts, no sometimes, it just plain sucks! - Death, divorce, depression, foreclosure, repossession, bullies... I could go on and on. Have you ever just felt like giving up? I won't claim to have all the answers to your pain. I was the type of guy who could handle anything-I was in total control, I thought!

This is a story of how I survived a painful time in my life.

The story begins with a somewhat humorous daily task that transforms into a deeper lesson which ends with an answer you may not expect.

For those of you who found this page out of pain: DON'T GIVE UP! I don't know who you are and I won't claim to know your pain. I won't tell you to grow up or just get over it. Let's face it, it hurts and it hurts badly!

Consider this first:

You did not choose this pain! Even if you made some bad decisions in life, you did not choose this pain!

We are all equipped to handle emotional pain but there is a limit to what we can handle! Have you found that limit? If so, your pain may control you, even make you consider suicide!

If your car runs out of gas, it shuts down no matter where it is or how busy the road is... it can't go on! While you may want your car to drive just a mile more to get to that gas station, it will not happen without the fuel to go on.

You are the same way! You may have all the will power and drive in the world, you may be exceedingly strong but when you run out of emotional gas, that's it; you're shutting down!

What can you do? The "to the point" methods are to reduce the amount of pain you are in which isn't always that simple and to learn to cope, share and give away your pain. Give it away? Who would want it right?

Let me say this, I am not a doctor, I don't have all the answers but I hurt and I have seen the bottom. I want to share one of my experiences with you and let you know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

What's in your Junk Drawer?

My cordless phone battery keeps going dead. I have one of those manual labor phones. I don't know if everyone has seen them. You know that one that you must stand up to answer the phone. That may be why the cordless phone keeps going dead; I am too lazy to put it on the base...

After digging out that old manual labor phone that I need a crash course on using and coming to the understanding that I can't just leave it off the hook sitting next to my recliner or it will start barking something really loud until you put it back on it's base... Wow I am being trained to put a

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