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- There's a saying among Christians. "God never gives us more than we can handle." Whoever is credited with saying this obviously had an easy life.
on Mar 06 2018 04:08 AM PST x edit
James C. Allen - It is a salve without substance, I grew up with this and with what does not kill us makes us stronger. Horse, not necessarily just toss in PTSD as an example and I should know about that too.
on Mar 06 2018 07:06 PM PST x edit
- "What does not kill us makes us stronger" is another old idiom I dislike and disagree with. If we survive "it", we were already stronger than the "thing" that tried to kill us.
I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2014, but my shrink said I had been suffering from chronic depression since at least 2004/05. Thanks to decent meds, I'm just coming out of the tunnel. Hell, the light still hurts my eyes.
on Mar 07 2018 05:32 AM PST x edit
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James C. Allen - I have been treated since shortly after high school. I understand as best as a person with similar issues can.
on Mar 07 2018 11:48 AM PST x edit
James C. Allen -
15 lines. I did not see a stanza specification as in the previous contest. If I violated a rule I did not see I will be glad to remove this poem. Thank You.
on Mar 05 2018 05:27 AM PST x edit
Purple esprit -
Congratulation on Silver for this great poem, I think both ways of looking at it are like the saying of a full or an empty glass. I can regard it as full whenever there is something in it and therefore the 15 years of that man would also be mine. You marked these views out very impressive, thank you. Blessings and good health, Ursula xxx 
on Feb 21 2018 01:47 PM PST x edit
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James C. Allen - Bright elucidating comment which helped me with the poem.
on Feb 21 2018 06:10 PM PST x edit
Bev smith - even an excellent optimist has pessimistic values, kinda like the glass whether half full or half empty still needs the glass ...
i love these i thought it i wrote it pieces, their honesty is SO refreshing ... like that person with perfect hair / on that windiest wettest day, i don't feel so inhuman, lol ...
on Feb 21 2018 09:50 AM PST x edit
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James C. Allen - I would like to gripe about something at ap but not in writing. Do you know me well enough to call me. This is only about Kevin being literate. My only friend mentor left there. I have almost no one but my best friend Mel to ask questions of. Att just gave me a new number and I have to find it. This is because I am in an att scam zone. Let me fill you in.
on Feb 22 2018 10:26 AM PST x edit
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Bev smith - Are you referring to my comment/reply to him?
No and please don’t take this personal I don’t talk/call anyone. I could send you me email
I’m sorry
on Feb 22 2018 11:01 AM PST x edit
Mlou - He sounds like me, Jim ... I count each survived day a blessing and try to make the most of it! 
on Feb 21 2018 06:14 AM PST x edit
Quest -
I totally understand the man saying what he said. What's done is done. This is the hand he was dealt. It all could have been worse, as he sees it. He's happy to still be alive 15 years later. The man is blessed! He is an optimist. To have never gotten cancer would have been ideal, yet he feels blessed nonetheless. Good work putting this down for deliberation. Thanks for entering!
on Feb 21 2018 12:10 AM PST x edit
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James C. Allen - Thank you for Silver, Haile, I like things that happen in real time that point out character flaws of a lifetime. I "needed" a win so to speak. Glad it came from someone I respect his perspective about.
on Feb 21 2018 01:32 AM PST x edit
PoetB300 - This is a good poem. You have a good point.
Keep on it
on Feb 20 2018 11:56 AM PST x edit
James C. Allen - Thank you it's called telling on yourself.
on Feb 20 2018 05:47 PM PST x edit
James C. Allen - Just happened earlier today, thank you..........attitude is everything, or many things.
on Feb 20 2018 11:57 AM PST x edit
