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I don’t want to feel sorry for myself yet I have to recognize my limitations:  my left arm still hurts and is recuperating from surgery.

Despite that, I want to do all that I am capable of and not wallow in self-pity.  There are things I want to do and at the same time recognize my arm will hurt more if I overdo it.

I never made my traditional meal of potato latkes.  I was not up to it.  My son was disappointed.  At the time it was too much.  I feel up to it now and despite the fact that Hanukkah is now over I will make the dish for my wife and I.

I will keep looking around and see what needs to be done or I want to do.  No matter what I do my arm will still hurt.  I just have to recognize that.

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I have to go back to my center:  gratitude.  I have been struggling for at least two weeks with depression.  Depression (or self-pity) is selfish and magnifies your self-importance.  It has its place but you should not linger too long there.

I need to thank God for every blessing — to have a sense of gratitude for my life.  Gratitude is my center.  I think less of me when I go back there.  There is so much I have to be thankful for.

Sitting in my driveway is our new used vehicle which was only possible to buy because my family (my two sisters and my aunt) contributed money toward a purchase of another car.

It is so easy to forget your blessings and get into a unforgiving cycle.  When you start thanking God for your every blessing, miracles happen.  You no longer have the luxury of wallowing in self-pity.

That is what I have to do today–keep returning to my center, develop a sense of gratitude for my every blessing.  Then depression just evaporates.

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