Victimology-Chronic Victim Investigation, CVI.
It would be great to resolve the CVI drama in an hour-television show interrupted with toothpaste and Geico commercials. Chronic Victim Investigation is reality...no actors, commercial breaks, or season hiatus.
Chronic investigation is my personal introspection and resolution of living with SPS and diabetes. Yesterday I wrote about chronic blues. For me, chronic blues is a temporary condition, healing bereavement. If I allowed myself to wallow in self-pity, chronic hopelessness would settle in...victimology...my own self-defeating enemy, "poor me."
While I cannot control fate, I can control my attitude...victor or victim. I view a victor as one who faces challenge, and when knocked to the ground will painstakingly rise, spitting dust and blood for another round. Victory is to keep trying..."in spite of."
"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."
~John W. Gardner~
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
~Helen Keller~
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