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From: Jeffrey Lewis, UW-Whitewater
Date: 10/2/02
Time: 10:39:26 AM
Remote Name: 140.146.90.200
Dale,
Thanks for the succinct thoughts. I can say those kinds of things to a student clinician or to a stutterer. Yet when a stutterer has come to that "bottom-line", it has more credibility.
As problem-solving animals, we focus on things in our lives that might be better if changed. Yet how maladaptive it seems to bemoan a less-than-perfect figure, a nose that appears to take too much advantage of the fact that air is a free thing, a forehead that appears to end somewhere atop the parietal-temporal bones, or on-and-on-and-so-forth. Osteoporosis is something that one may be able to do something about at some point in one's life. Yet, if one cannot, is that worth turning one's life around over? Of course it will have an affect. But it seems to me that ya got whatcha got. Focus on the blessings and be happy. As the lyric goes: You gotta accentuate the positive; eliminate the negative; act on the affirmative...
But I think you said it much better than I could have.