Bipolar Survivor

I have this neighbor.  We don’t know each other at all.  To tell you the truth, I’m not sure I’d want to know her.  I do, however, know her wind chimes.  Intimately.

They blow at the slightest provocation of any slight wind, and I can hear them all the way over at my house.  Why does this bother me?  Because they are loud and obnoxious.  And she is never even home to hear them!  She works all the time.  But who hears them?  I do!  All the time!  And they are NOT pleasant.  At least not for me.  They really, really bug me.

My husband and I have to smoke outside, so we hear these obnoxious wind chimes all the time.  And we have threatened to go over there when our neighbor is not home and just take them down and destroy them, hiding them where she cannot find them.

I wish I could do that.  No more obnoxious wind chimes!  No more stress for me!

But I can’t do that.  Because I live by the creed:  Be kind to one another, bipolar or not.  And I wouldn’t want her to do something like that to me.  I mean, what if I’ve got something that bugs her like that (I don’t have any wind chimes, believe me), tho I don’t think I do.

Still, I wouldn’t want something I did to bother her that much so that she would retaliate against me.

We have to get along with each other, bipolar or not.  There are things that all of us do that bug each other.  Sometimes we can do something about it, and sometimes we can’t.

Like, I have ADHD really bad.  So when somebody clicks a pen over and over again and they’re sitting close to me, it drives me batty!  I’ve been able, at times, to kindly lean over and ask them to please stop doing that (to my own embarrassment), and they did.

But basically, we all just have to put up with each other, and our differences.  It’s part of being human.  I hear people with bipolar disorder saying all the time that they just want to be like everyone else.  Well, here’s the chance to prove it!  Be tolerant!  Live and let live!  If you want people to put up with you, you’re going to have to put up with them as well.

You may not always like the way other people act, but it’s best to put up with them as much as you can.  Don’t start trouble where you don’t need any, or cause any embarrassment to yourself or draw any unneeded attention to yourself – you’ll find yourself in a situation where you didn’t want to be.

I know it sounds cliche, but let’s all just try to get along?  It goes alot further in managing your bipolar disorder as well, helping to keep your stress level down.

Wishing you peace and stability,

Remember God loves you and so do I,

Michele

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