Why We May Be Alone and How to Remedy Loneliness with Kindness

Many people are looking for lovers and friends, but never really find what they are looking for. To find true friends we have to stop thinking about ourselves, and start caring about others. Look at people who are happy and have many friends they may not be rich, or wealth, good looking or intelligent, but you will probably find a kind heart within each of these people. They have loving families and caring social networks which they take part. I someone who asks "Why is she more popular than me, she has more friends but isn't any smarter than me? Why?"

I asked myself today "will there be anyone who will miss me when I die?" I realized that I only have one or two close friends now, I don't mix with people. But it also doomed me that I haven't helped many people in our community or reached out to our family. So self-absorbed, in my own little world in my own little mind, I've got to breakout and how. Got to get back to the real world instead of the world inside my head...

With Christmas coming up it makes for a good time to change, but not only Christmas, all year long. We have to work to be kind and caring to others, if everyone did this we wouldn't need war, and crime that goes along with all the negative stuff that goes along without human understand. I don't really believe in devil or evil the only cause of it is out of the lack of love in the world. Love and kindness would heal the world if we all gave it a try. Reach out to your family or the homeless person on the street you will be surprised how easy it is. I may sound like I'm coming off a bit to preachy, but I really think there is a point to this so please read it and take it to heart.

Passion and walking

There is passion for life, passion for the ones we love, but there is also the passion for the activities we do. I see so many people who do not have an idea of what they are going to do after they reach the age of retirement. Some continue to work pass the ripe old age of 65 but others take the pension and sit back then illness and senility creep in. Our golden years should be treated as golden, we need to take time a create hobbies and activities that we can take into these years. It is good to financially plan for retirement, but one needs to plan what they are going to do with their time in these years. Learning hobbies and crafts right now is an excellent way to get ready for these years to come. If you don't live that long, at least you've learned something valuable.

My brother is 73 years old and he is quite active physically. I gave up driving car years ago out of cost factors and vision problems. We have found that walking everyday has a found of youth benefit to it. Living in walk-able communities is idea for our health. My brother loves to socialize with people on his walks and has made many friends. I too enjoy walking, but should do more. The winter weather makes it hard to walk when it comes to icy sidewalks. I recommend every individual walk, my doctor makes a habit of walking and he tells me that you can live to a hundred. He may be exaggerating but I am sure walking has good benefits such as controlling weight gain and aerobic fitness. You may ask what about shopping carrying groceries; well my brother has a grocery cart with two wheels and a handle which he tows behind him. These carts are in expensive and cost around $40. For what he carries, you would be surprised big bags of dog food and a small amount of groceries. Other times he has a large amount of food. What I'm getting at if we live in a city that we can usually walk to the stores and get what we need. We must not really on box stores, for the reason these stores are successful is due to the amount of automobile using consumers. With the entire buzz on Climate Change, Pollution, and The End to Peak Oil we need our feet to do the walking or pedalling.

There you have it, a raving bipolar mind going from one idea to the next as you see. This is typical of me to write or talk continuously from on topic to the next. I really need to learn how to stop getting off topic but maybe just writing what comes to mind is ok.

Ideas from a Manic Mind: My New Cocktail of Meds

Ideas from a Manic Mind: My New Cocktail of Meds: "Starting a new cocktail of medications I will see how my moods change. Right now after I took the meds for the first time, my mania seems to..."

My New Cocktail of Meds

Starting a new cocktail of medications I will see how my moods change. Right now after I took the meds for the first time, my mania seems to be levelled out somewhat. I will follow through with this blog and keep an update of how the moods do swing. One thing is for sure, I would rather be high than depressed. Depression so too often reminds me of what it would like to be buried alive, at least this is the emotional feeling I get from clinical depression. People often speak to me about being depressed and I don't know if they are suffering a clinical depression. Some of their depression is due to drinking too much alcohol, no doubt they are depressed, but it is because of substance abuse. I notice when I get depressed I come down with the flu and colds. My immune system is all out of order when I'm depressed. The thing about rapid cycling depression, you know the depression is not going to last long, not like others who suffer for months at a time with unbearable depression. The solution for bipolar disorder is to keep the mania and the depression from going to high or to low. It's to keep it in a balance. This is what medications are supposed to do.

Ideas from a Manic Mind: Tears

Ideas from a Manic Mind: Tears: "I should introduce myself as a rapid cycling bi polar consumer; by consumer I use mental health services and resources. Well the other few w..."

Tears

I should introduce myself as a rapid cycling bi polar consumer; by consumer I use mental health services and resources. Well the other few weeks I was in a mixed state of depression and being a male in my fifties I find that the older I get the more emotional I get. Seeing the Giants win the MLB World Series brought tears to my eyes as does seeing the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup after all those years without a win. I don't really know if this is a part of being bi polar or just being an emotional guy, but I cry when I see beautiful things like nature and happy faces, but also when people are crying too. I know some of you may think of me as a sap and it could possibly be but on the other hand, maybe being emotion is feeling a tender side that is in all of us.

My father was a first war veteran and he always told me not to cry it was unmanly, but on one occasion when I was very young he took me to his battalion reunion. The room was not filled with the young men that he had remembered, but old crippled men in wheelchairs. Father couldn't take much more so he took me outside with tears in his eyes and told me that they were not the comrades that a went to war with.