Coping with hard times...

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You know we all have bad days. In fact, I sometimes wonder why in the hell I ever got out of bed. I don't have so many these days but when I first arrived home from the spinal unit I had some pretty ordinary days. I found two ways to overcome those bad days. One thing I use is laughter. If you can stand back and laugh at yourself, it helps. And the other thing I do is jumping the fence. I jump out of my paddock into someone elses and just for a few seconds - that's all it has to be - I think about all the people around the world without clean drinking water, in famine or living in war zones. A young boy said to me one day, 'Yeh, Sam that's all really bad but I can't really relate to it.' Okay, come back to our own country. Think about all the people who have lost loved ones in accidents, or are lying in spinal units or oncology wards, or the people rebuilding their lives after the horrendous fires in Victoria earlier this year. They'd all swap you just like that. Then you jump back over the fence and suddenly your problems...the lost wallet or the flat tyre or the fact the finances are a bit tight....don't seem so bad afterall. The sun goes down and comes up again tomorrow, tomorrow is another day and away you go again. That's how I got over my bad days. Oh, and I give the dog a pat...that also helps!!!