Elaine Martin-Ceslewski:  

can spend time thinking, analyzing and wondering how it fell apart, And try to put it all back together like a puzzle. Or you can leave the pieces on the floor, step over it, and keep walking. ღ - Tupac Shakur ღ Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You own the remote control. All you have to do is change the channel. ღ". More about Elaine:"ღ Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. I've decided to stop playing all games on facebook except cityville... we'll see how that goes... I need to devote more time to my personal life and work on me ...I will continue to keep in touch with the "Todd" and Al anon community for without all of you I would surely be lost...Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening...it's time to focus on myself and put my life in order...ღ ღ I've made mistakes in my life. I've let people take advantage of me, and I have accepted way less than I deserve. But, I've learned from my bad choices, and even though there are some things I can never recover and people who will never be sorry, I now know better for next time. Next time I won't settle for anything less than I deserve.ღ ღ Life is like a train ride. We get on. We ride. We get off. We get back on and ride some more. There are accidents and there are delays. At certain stops there are surprises. Some of these will translate into great moments of joy, some will result in profound sorrow... ღ ღ The alcoholic life is like a video. We are there watching the movie. We leave and it gets shut off. We return and the movie is in the same place it was unless the alcoholic finds sobriety, then there is a change. I didn't cause it. I can't control it and I can't cure it. I can work on me today and let them do what they do best... ღ ღ We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch. ღ ღ God grant me the "Serenity"..to accept the things I can not change..O.k. I'm trying. The "Courage" to change the things I can..YES..I'm working on it... And the "Wisdom to know the difference...The difference...Between right and wrong.. ღ ღ I'm thinking back to certain lost moments in life, when a different decision, or action, taken could have dramatically changed everything for the better...ღ ღ If you're reading this, I guess that means you're peaking in at my page. Glad to have you. ღ".