OK, yes, that was gratuitous whining on my part

[bunrab]

All the messages I got from you while I was in the hospital were wonderful.
I had just hit a temporarily whiny moment.

OTOH, let me point out that a great number of LJ "users" are people who have gotten a name so that they can respond with comments to other people, not so that they can actually run their own LJ. I suspect that if one eliminated from the stats all those who have only 1 or zero postings to their own journal, indicating that they are not on LJ for their own sake, that the median numbers and those percentages would change drastically.

My regular cardiologist, whom I saw Friday, says that I am handling all this with far more equanimity than anyone else he's seen in a similar situation. Well, I'm trying to. But I do have the occasional whiny moment, a bit of crankiness. I try not to let it get out of hand, as whining is quite pointless. One of the things I haven't found yet in our boxes is my little pocket copy of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations which I need to randomly flip through for a reminder dose of common sense. While I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a Stoic, an awful lot of Aurelius strikes me as a good way to lead a life. A good hearty dose of "this is the life you've got, now go out and use it and stop whining!" is what I need. Perhaps I'll go buy a different edition just to get a different translation and to have something until I find the other. (No, my Latin has never been anywhere near good enough to read him in the original.)

Comments

[parelle.livejournal.com]

If you've the patience to read on the computer, perhaps this woudl tie you over?

http://www.blackmask.com/Detailed/Classics/Roman/Meditations_21.html

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Although that's a bit hard to flip open to a random page, or to read in bed. But better than nothing!

[momily.livejournal.com]

Funny! I've been sick myself, just a bout with the epizooties, as my parents called it when I was a child - and haven't read much LJ in about four days or so. Glad you got over the snit fit before I got well enough to sit here at the computer again.

At first I thought you were saying you'd try a different translation of M.A. in order to see if he said it any differently.... :)

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

epizooties
Ah, having over-educated parents with warped senses of humor is such fun, isn't it?