CONTESTING REALITY

WHEN YOU SUFFER THE EXHAUSTING pain and misery that causes you to end up with an ostomy, it is not unnatural to find yourself questioning your place in the world.  We’ve all been through that to one extent or another.  Here’s how I dealt with it.  I simply decided that I was not going to be intimidated by reality anymore.  There were some small aspects of my life over which I had control.  Then there was the overbearing, drooling monster of reality over which I had no say so.  In case you haven’t noticed, reality happens to be a leading cause of stress in normal people.  Once I came to grips with the daily necessities of my ostomy and grasped the absurd nature of what was going on around me, I was okay.  I didn’t ignore reality, exactly.  I bifurcated the hell out of it.  It became Them and Me.  Theirs and mine.  Reality, I told myself, is what you make it.  It is multidimensional and malleable enough to permit messing around with it a bit.  This realization, like the cataract surgery I eventually had to undergo, helped me to see a lot better.  So I guess it is a vision thing.  

Morning Henry

YES!

It's sure a vision thing - how we perceive stuff and how we deal with stuff!

I LOVE your use of bifurcate!

Practical, accepting, and positive - full acknowledgment and active participation .....

Rather like the man who had all his family and home destroyed in front of his eyes .....

He resolved he had two choices - one to be bitter and negative - two not allow himself to become the former .....

How we perceive, what we think, what we rationalize, and HOW we FEEL going forward is how we use our own POWER TO MAKE OURSELVES WHO AND WHAT WE ARE!

What an uplifting post Henry - TY

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ waves ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Jayne

verb
past tense: bifurcated; past participle: bifurcated
/ˈbʌɪfəkeɪt/
divide into two branches or forks.
"just below Cairo the river bifurcates"

Perspective is everything. It can make or break us.