Beautifully Unique : Look Fear In The Face

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Look Fear In The Face

Blogging Friends.... This was the July quotation from my wall calendar. Only they did not print her every word!! Sad!! So here is the quotation in whole!! I like it.... Her words feel somewhat symbolic to my folliculitis decalvans journey!! How so? I'm choosing to "look fear in the face" as I gradually accept Reality that I will eventually lose my beautiful hair, go bald and unveil twain surgically-created craniosynostosis scars!! One step at a time!! Love you later.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Look for my September fictional children's book to be posted on Minuscule is good! {Lord willing!!} on September 1st!! And do not forget to leave a comment!!

4 comments:

Ziggy Stardust said...: I love your attitude. It is very hard to face things that are so difficult and often there isn't much we can do about it. You have the right mind set and I know you will be ok. Just take one day at a time and be strong.

Go Raelyn Go!!

I will be your cheerleader.

Anne and Sasha; August 30, 2014 at 9:21 PM
Unknown said...: Wise words and we look forward to the book. Have a serene easy Sunday now.
Best wishes Molly; August 31, 2014 at 1:56 AM
Mary Lou said...: Anne and Sasha....
Thank-you for the comment, Friends!!
"I love your attitude. It is very hard to face things that are so difficult and often there isn't much we can do about it. You have the right mind set and I know you will be ok. Just take one day at a time and be strong." Thanks, Friend!! ;)
"Go Raelyn Go!! I will be your cheerleader." I appreciate that!! ;op; August 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM
Mary Lou said...: Molly....
Thank-you for the comment, Friend!!
"Wise words and we look forward to the book." Thanks, Friend!! I look forward to finishing this fictional children's book!! As the seven dwarfs from "Snow White" sang. "Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work {I} go"!! Hee, hee, hee.... ;op; August 31, 2014 at 2:15 PM

"It's A... Terrible Privilege"

{Taken from "The Avengers"}
Tony Stark: You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart.
[Stark points at the mini-arc reactor in his chest]
Tony Stark: This stops it. This little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a... terrible privilege.
Bruce Banner: But you can control it.
Tony Stark: Because I learned how.
Bruce Banner: It's different.
[Banner tries to read the computer screen, but Stark slides the data aside with his finger so the two can see face-to-face]
Tony Stark: Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gamma exposure should have killed you.
Bruce Banner: So you're saying that the Hulk... the other guy... saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Save it for... what?
Tony Stark: I guess we'll find out.
[Banner and Stark get back to work at their respective computers]
Bruce Banner: You might not enjoy that.
Tony Stark: You just might.

Raelyn:

I am a 31-year old American woman. I was born with multiple birth defects. Craniosynostosis. {I did not have any soft spots.} Congenital diaphragmatic hernia. {I had a hole in my diaphragm.} And Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. {I had an irregular, rapid heartbeat.} All three birth defects have been surgically repaired!! I live with "developmental delays". Learning disabilities, if you will. Such as--unfortunately--premature short-term memory loss. Oh, and I have attention deficit disorder, as well!! I do not like to evade such an issue as my learning disabilities. No. It hurts sometimes to be different. I was also diagnosed with a condition called folliculitis decalvans. {I am more than likely going to lose my hair, go bald, and unveil twain Frankenstein-like surgically-created craniosynostosis scars. Permanently.} But God is gradually teaching me that we are all, as my phrase goes, Beautifully Unique!!