so true...

I found this in an old email that was forwarded to me back in November 2003. That's about the same time I was starting my mental breakdown at Rogers. God, I certainly don't miss that time in my life... or that horrible building. I still have nightmares about that place. I thought I'd share it with you all... since it's so fitting:

“Sometimes it’s difficult to accept the choices life offers us. It seems easier to go along with the roles that others assign. How many people do we know who seem to drift through important areas of their lives, neither fully cooperating nor asserting their own choices? They might not like to admit it, but in “going along,” they’ve accepted someone else’s definition of who they are.
Some of us comply out of a desire to cooperate—but there’s a big difference. Compliance means refusing to exercise our own power to choose; cooperation means using our power together with others to achieve more than any of us can alone. If we accept the responsibility for our lives, we forego the luxury of saying, ‘Look at what you made me do;’ but in exchange we may get to do what we want.”


Excuse me while I go throw up now...