Hello

I've not been online very much the last couple of days - not been too good - feeling a wee bit brighter today though and I thought that I would share with you the following about friendship........


True Friends


A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. Someone who can see through you and still enjoy the view. Someone who knows all about you and likes you anyway; knows your faults, your joys and your pains, and is there for you through your roughest times.

It's great to be rich, it's great to be strong and healthy, but it's a better thing to be loved by many friends. In friendships it's not our job to try and straighten each other out but it should be our job to help each other up.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it's lost. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. I like the conversation in the movie Winnie the Pooh: "Are we going to be friends forever?" asked Piglet. "Even longer", answered Pooh.

Misfortunes in your life shows you who are really your true friends. When disaster strikes you, that's when you find who your real friends are. A true friend will be there in your roughest times when all the others are avoiding you. A friendship that can cease may never have been real to begin with.

To me a true friend is one that will always find you acceptable when others do not. No one is perfect in this world - far from. But understand, when your friend needs you they shouldn't have to ask you for help, you should already be there providing it.

Friendships last longer than most relationships. Most would choose what they think is love over friends. Why is that? A simple answer. Everyone is looking for that elusive soul-mate, very few ever find it, but for those who do - wonderful - you win!

Keep your friends close...............



Love & light to you,

Angel xXx)O(xXx

Hello my friends......

I have had some lovely comments, and made another lovely friend on here over the last couple of days - thank you ....... I also have a bebo page which I set up last week, ( www.bebo.com/AngelUK2008), and have received similar comments and messages over there too - I've also made a few new friends over there who have depression & other mental health issues, two of them had never spoken 'openly' about them before - one actually said that she has always been scared of peoples reactions and how they may 'judge' her, or 'see' her, or treat her differently. How incredibly sad it is that we are now in 2008 and yet people are still so terrified of being 'labeled' & looked down upon, simply because they are ill. It is a sorrowful reflection of our society..... Would people be so 'judgmental' about someone with a broken leg for instance? - I think not! I sincerely feel that one of the main reasons people are so 'worried' and sometimes 'prejudicial' about mental illness, is because of the 'fear of the unknown'. Much more needs to be done to educate society about mental health issues/illnesses, in order to help dispel those fears. One of my new friends actually said how she considers me "incredibly brave" for speaking about my illness; I just think that I am being honest about 'me'. My illness is only one part of me, anyone that chooses only to 'see' that part and none of the many others is, frankly, missing out on a lot!

I have had periods of depression in the past - but never like this - I've always managed to 'function' at some level before, but this time it's so much 'deeper'. I used to think nothing of going away to work on the islands / west coast of Scotland on my own, I've run a pub, worked on a TV programme, set up learning centres and been a teacher in further education......... always been a very 'strong' person - especially when dealing with other people & their problems, I'm even a trained Volunteer Advocate, but now I'm the one who needs the help and support. It was so very difficult for me to 'ask' though. However, as well as my lovely Doctor, (she visits me at home and phones me regularly), I now have a wonderful CPN/counselor who works with my consultant. I am right at the beginning of my journey 'back', and I know it's going to be a long and painful road, but I'll travel it to get back into the light again.........

Well, I've 'waffled on ' enough for this evening I think, so, I'll sign out for now, and be back with you all very soon........

Love & light to you,

Angel xXx)O(xXx

Hello.......

Just wanted to find out if there is anybody out there?

It's been a week since anyone called in to say hello  I'm getting a wee bit worried Is it something I've said?  Ohhhhhh, I guess I'm just feeling a little bit lonely .......

I had an hour & a half meeting with my counselor today, (she comes to see me every week at present), and it left me quite emotionally drained. I have a meeting with my Doctor tomorrow too - she's a fantastic person and I'm so fortunate to have her as my GP. I should explain, (briefly, cos the whole story would need the equivalent of a trilogy of very thick books), I am going through a period of depression which has also developed the additional problem of agrophobia. It's quite scary, but I have come through many 'trials' in my lifetime - from very early in my life and later 'experiences' - and I am a believer in the old saying that: 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'...... don't misunderstand me though, I'm no 'victim'! Hell, I'm a survivor me......just that this time is a hard battle that's all........

Anyhow, I decided to share this with 'you' because it's one of the infinite number of elements that together make up the complicated, (and extremely 'interesting'), person that is 'me'; and this is my place to talk about me, my life, experiences, dreams, wishes, desires, strifes, battles, problems, pleasures and pains - in fact, a place for me to open up and be, honestly, 'me'........

Soooooo, here 'I' am.......

I'll be back very soon, probably with some more 'waffle'

Take care of yourselves

Love & light, Angel xxx.

I am sure that other titles will come to me....I'll add them later - lol!! Let me know if you can think of any....I may even add them - as long as they're 'printable' - hehehe!

Love & light to you all,

Angel, xxx

Hello my friends
I thought that I would share with you some quotes that I like, and that make me 'think' - I've been doing a lot of 'thinking' and soul-searching recently.....................

"When it hurts to look back & you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you & your true friends will be there."

"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself has any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hells despair."
~ William Blake.

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
~ Buddah.

"Don't let the past hold you back - you'll be missing the good stuff!"

"It takes both sunshine & rain to make a rainbow"

"You can't shut out the hurt & the pain without loosing the love that remains."

"A reality becomes a memory and changes. A dream remains a dream & lasts forever......so, dream on....."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
~ Oscar Wilde.

"Love is friendship set on fire."
~ Jeremy Taylor

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one - I hope one day you'll join us, then the world can live as one."
~ John Lennon

"The past is another country, they do things differently there."
~ L.P. Hartley

"When you get the chance to sit it out or dance.....I hope you dance...."
~ Leeann Womack

"The first duty of love is to listen."
~ Paul Tillich

"Love is the ability & willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you."
~ Wayne Dyer

"Just remember in the winter, deep beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the suns love, in the spring, becomes the rose....."
~ Song - The Rose

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it for long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
~ Phyllis Bottome

"Those three words are said too much - they're not enough.........."
~ Snow Patrol


I have many more, and will share them with you another day..............


Blessings of love & light to you,
Angel xxx

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Hello & Welcome to my new 'place'

Just thought that I'd write a few words to introduce myself to my new friends...............

I have written a brief outline of myself and my 'interests' in my 'profile', so I won't bore you by repeating those things here. Should you 'add' me or visit here often, I warn you in advance that I can 'waffle' for England; but, hopefully, you will find my future 'wanderings' on this blog 'interesting' at the least............... Apart from my own thoughts and experiences, I will be adding various things such as quotes, writings about things that I'm interested in, articles, poetry - loadsa' stuff really. Over time, I will also be adding many albums on here, mostly fantasy art, but also 'funnies', pictures of my favourite people and places, lots of things really - I hope that you will enjoy looking at them.

Please feel free to add me as a friend if you would like to - I look forward to 'meeting' you ........

Love & Light, Angel x