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" I read a quote last night that hit me right between the eyes, scrambled my brain, then slid down to land firmly in my solar plexus like a giant brick of lead. Allow me to share it with you: &amp;quot;Grieving doesn&amp;#039;t have a time frame on it, but life does. Whether you realize it or not, life is marching on. There comes a time when you have to accept the fact and say, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ve got to get on with my life, I&amp;#039;ve got to get on with raising my children, I&amp;#039;ve got to get on with putting things together where I can be a happy, meaningful, productive member of society.&amp;#039; Find a way to put one foot in front of the other and move forward.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s courtesy of Dr. Phil, by the way. And he&amp;#039;s right. I&amp;#039;m done with grieving over the end of my marriage, and done with the majority of the grief associated with losing the life I planned on having at this point. Now I&amp;#039;m just kind of in a holding pattern, and if I&amp;#039;m not careful, I&amp;#039;ll be holding until I&amp;#039;m ninety and wondering when in the world my life is going to start. I&amp;#039;ve taken a few baby steps here and there to get myself &amp;quot;out there&amp;quot; more, but it&amp;#039;s hard for me. My friends would probably all be shocked to learn what a true-blue introvert I am. I&amp;#039;ve just learned over the years to be social, but that doesn&amp;#039;t mean it&amp;#039;s my natural inclination. I have to force myself to do things with people. Literally! And this kid-free weekend, I&amp;#039;m forcing myself to go on a hike with a local walking group. They had their announcement of a meet-up in the local paper, and I love to hike and the weather is supposed to cooperate. I&amp;#039;m going to make myself go and I&amp;#039;m going to be glad I did. My logical mind knows that. I just wish the rest of me would get on board. Did you feel like you were having to &amp;quot;fake it till you make it&amp;quot; with your life for awhile? &amp;#039;Cause that&amp;#039;s how I&amp;#039;m feeling, it really is. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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