Blog where I feel sorry for myself and turn to Monty Python for comfort!

[Jill]

Excuse me but I am feeling sorry for myself having woken up yesterday with a raging sore throat and cold. I feel like this picture except I'm in a dressing gown and not a pretty dress! And last week was terrible for bad news around here. What with L age only 29 having a heart attack and T losing his job, flat and having his bike stolen all in the same week, and M having a second month off work for depression and consequently having no money which is even more depressing with 4 children including a young baby to bring up. Everywhere I looked there seemed to be more bad news and then getting this cold on top is the final straw! I usually try to keep all cheerful on Creative Cafe and I am cheerful most of the time. I don't want people to think having Bipolar as I do is a huge handicap to managing to get a happy life. It may have taken me near 50 years to get a happy life but I do have one now so I'm very very lucky. I live with the disability of having Bipolar by taking medication that finally suits me (unlike some previous ones which were really nasty) and in supportive relationships with people I trust (unlike when I was with my ex husband who couldn't be trusted at all) So yes I do have a lot of blessings to count even though I am in the Uk and we don't have Thanksgiving over here and it was ironic that this week it just seemed to be one lot of bad news after another. When this happens I feel it is just as much my right to get rather down and feel sorry for myself as anyone else who doesn't have a mental health disability. I mean I can't have no ups and downs at all. But when I do feel like this a sense of humour is essential and one of the songs that cheers me up is The Universe Song by Monty Python

and here it is


here are the lyrics

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed thereis
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

[Mandy Lawrence]

Love that video Jill.

I think you are entitled to put a blog post up about feeling sorry for yourself. Think it is justifiable too. Everyone gets poorly in their lives and can't be expected to be all singy and dancey all the time. Although you do a pretty good job of keeping this place upbeat and with a positive vibe.

Hope you feel better soon but in the mean-time rest when you can and give yourself some TLC :>)

[Jill]

Hi Rebecca

Thanks a lot for your being supportive and sweet. I don't feel as bad as I did but don't have much energy right now. Anyway Creative Cafe can tick along for a while Ok. And your positivity is much appreciated.

Plus we have to have a laugh to keep the blues away!

Bye for Now
Jill

[Rebecca]

Hey Jill! Yes, you are usually the "up" one here in the cafe' - but you are also entitled to have downers as well. You can't be Wonder Woman all the time. And what is "normal" anyway? Just because you are bipolar does not mean you can't feel bad and get sick. With all the stresses on you, trying to remain positive when all around you seems to be falling down, there's little wonder why your immune system had enough!
Take a moment and find you little Eden - bask and enjoy a little you time. Your body is telling you to rest - so you must.
I'll take on the positive role for you for a few days - but don't wait too long or I'll get tired as well (just kidding)

Warm hugs and hot tea for you little lady!
Rebecca

[Jill]

Hi Leslie

Thanks a lot. I am still pretty bunged up at the moment. People take it for granted we get colds and bugs at this time of year but I think putting up with the cold winter weather should be enough! Hope you get that jab before catching anything as well.

Bye for Now
Jill

[Leslie Wilson-Rutterford]

Hi Jill,
Sorry to hear that you're under the weather. I always think that's the best time to feel sorry for yourself! So, go ahead and indulge. It's definitely the time to slow down and keep it simple. A nice book or film and a cup a soup! I'm going for my flu jab this Friday, a bit late in the season, but better late... I've managed to ward off a full blown virus this season, with the odd sniffly days here and there. Fighting off a bit of a sore throat presently, too. So I hope I get the jab in time!
Hope you feel better soon.
All the best,
Leslie