Best Posts in Thread: Two Year Post Stroke Update

Great post, Pat. I admire your attitude and peristance. Wishing you the best, sir.

 

Semper Fi my Brother...

 

As always Pat, Many of us admire that Marine Courage "True Grit and determination" will always see you through

Jack

 

Your looking better each time i bump into to you m8 keep up the good work

 

Respect for the way you handle the consequences of your stroke, wish the best to you and your familie

 

I had the stroke at my home in Bacong. My father-in-law rode his motor bike to the Bacong fire station, a kilometer from my house, to ask for their ambulance. The ambulance came with only a driver so my FiL and BiL loaded me in and took me to Siliman Hospital.

 

This is good advice and I follow the same. Sometimes I can get really down from an issue with work, but then something as small as an old client contacting me or someone bringing me a cup of coffee can fill me back up with energy. Look for the small wins and appreciate them.

More accurate for me is small positives than wins. I have seen a number of articles which talk about how the chance of survival for a wedding can be predicted based on a ratio of positives to negatives. I think we can apply this to many areas of life.

The small wins (positives) are all we can really count on anyways. We can grind out a good day of work, learning something new or just enjoying the day. But we are seriously constrained in how much we can plan further into the future. For example, we don't know what the stock market will do and we we don't know how long that job will last (though we can follow general patterns from historical data) We can't make big goals and expect that the fractal of variables and the resulting explosion of complexity will align with those goals. A simple, stupid test - how many of us went on to be what we wanted to be when we were 8 years old?

Here is a quote from Nietzsche

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures."

Suffering is part of the human condition as much as happiness. We use suffering as a bearing for happiness and the other way around. I salute both your adversity and your recovery.