Just do something!

I thought we might take a break here and talk about blogging.  Especially, my experience with blogging.  English is not my mother tongue so everything I do related to English, I think twice.  That's one obstacle I had to overcome.  It took me a while to decide.

Second, my mental illness.  Will people be interested in me talking to them about my problem?

It's not popular subject in blogging.  That was one of my other excuse.  Everybody knows about it or what can I offer, I am not a doctor.

I always have thought that the one who experience an illness knows better than a doctor because he or her experience it.  Maybe I am wrong but unless I hear otherwise I will let you know.  I agree I still need a doctor to guide me in the kind of drugs I need but I am the one experiencing the symptoms and I am ready to let any doctor know what my symptoms are and you should too.  This could save your life, literally.

So back to my blogging.  I started one blog and found out after a while that I could help people and I liked doing it and writing too.  So I started another one about my mental illness and the illness and all that is related to it in general.

I would just encourage anyone who is remotely interested in blogging on any subjects of interest to do the same.  It has to be a subject you can talk a lot about and one that you like.

I don't see lives changing because I am not getting comments from anybody in this particular blog on Poetry and Blog, but I believe I am helping some of you to live a better life.  Just try something new like blogging. 

To conclude here is a poem I wrote about myself...with poetry also I have it adapted to my abilities.  I don't worry much about forms and rhymes.  I just write it to have fun and to give a message to the world.  Also this poem's message talks about a thorn.  The Bible refers to a thorn in the apostle Paul's life.  No one knows what the thorn in the flesh was but it could have been a mental illness or something else.  It was some kind of disability for sure that kept him from accomplishing stuff.  (2 Corinthians 12:7-9)

 

The Thorn

Bernard Demaere

 

You may say to yourself:

“But what’s wrong with me?”

“Don’t worry” says,

The Great Physician

“It’s just a thorn,

Yes, you just have a thorn

In your flesh.

To keep you humble.

But lo, and behold,

My amazing Grace

That you sing about,

So well,

Is enough.

    My personal thorn

 has been

Mental illness,

And at times,

It has been

With suicidal thoughts

I am here to tell you,

That, I am victorious

Because of Jesus,

I am still alive.

We must awake

To the facts that

In Canada,

In 2017,

Over four-thousand people

Have died from suicide

Alone.

Let’s be more aware

Of one another

And our struggles.

Don’t fix what is broken.

But let Jesus do it

Through you

He will fix your broken

Dreams

And renew your hopes.

Just give him the helm

He will stir the ship.