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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:rose:

This is one of my favourite mantras:

It's not all for naught,
It's not all for naught,
It's not all for naught...

Because, it's NOT.

There's been plenty of times, when I've just had to tell myself this just to get through.
Just to get through some really challenging things, in my life.

Especially the types of things, where I have experienced very deep loss, at the kind of cost where I had worked extremely hard in very particular ways, at what ended up to seem to be ALL FOR NOTHING.

And for such various difficulties to end up seemingly all for nothing, has always been a type of pain quite unbearable.

I've needed to seek to realize that my expenditure of enduring energy, focus, time, even money, in such exhaustive but these very much important times, has NEVER been just a waste of my energy, my very essence of my very self.

I've never been able to stand the thought.

Hence this mantra that I've needed in order to keep this mindset, because it's NOT always easy.

There is a Linkin Park song that's been one of my life's themes, in a not-so-happy way, even though I've used it to "rage" in a therapeutic way. Sometimes that IS healthy...

But it DOES go along with the "nothing" mode of thinking...

sigh...

But I NEED to believe that everything I've done has meant some kind of something, has built me in a certain kind of way that is hopefully for good.

It's just in the last few months, it's all come around again, and I need the mantra again, badly. :nod: So at least I've got
my "TOOLS"

It's NOT all for NAUGHT!
Yes, SOMEHOW it's all got to matter... because I have to have something, somehow. :hmm:

IN THE END
by Linkin Park

It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try, keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so (far)
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I

Chorus

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know (2x) Chorus

YouTube LINK: :music:[link]


~~~~~~~~~:rose:



[NOTE: I just wanted to say, in advance, how especially grateful for anyone's :+fav: I may receive for this image. :thanks::aww::rose: I am honoured that you would enjoy or think well enough of my work here, to :+fav: it. :nod: So I thank you :thanks: profusely, and from the bottom of my heart :heart: . And because I do realize time constraints all too well, I understand, if you are unable to also leave a comment. :aww: However, whichever you may do, [or even both! :omg: ] I genuinely appreciate it beyond measure. I need you to know this now, in case I'm not capable of doing individual thank-you's for :+fav:'s, which I've not been capable, or in case I cannot respond to each comment, either. Thanks for understanding. :thanks:
:love: And even if you just came to view! :eyes: I am also very HAPPY :D for this! :w00t: ]

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~greycanbehappy Mar 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
:o I think I have that pen. :o

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Simplifying this account day by day.
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*scarletcougar Oct 26, 2011
Hello, I am reworking my website and was looking for a picture to be the image link to a page about writing. May I use this picture for that? It captures what I really was hoping to. The writing, the tea, the very choice words.

It not all for naught.

I am doing the NaNoWriMo challenge this year and love what this picture inspires.
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~Cattereia Jun 23, 2010
I just love the set up of this piece. The thought you've put into each element is just amazing.

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#the-ROSE-garden & #Word-Wit

NaNoWriMo: My profile!
2010: 62, 058 words.
2011: 50, 290 words.
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*TeaPhotography Jun 30, 2010  Professional Photographer
I really have appreciated all the favs and the very thoughtful comments of late! :rose:'s

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~Cattereia Jul 2, 2010
You're more than welcome, my dear! :)

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#the-ROSE-garden & #Word-Wit

NaNoWriMo: My profile!
2010: 62, 058 words.
2011: 50, 290 words.
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~Jee-z-us Jun 8, 2010
Thanks for sharing the mantra..next time i'm upset, i'll try remember it and maybe i'll feel a bit better :)

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*TeaPhotography Jun 30, 2010  Professional Photographer
Wow, well that's awesome! I mean if it would actually be of some help to anyone ELSE, or that even someone would even think to try it themselves, then that is SOME kind of compliment in of its OWN self! Why thank you! :hug:
And my best to you always! :nod:

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The Shelter Project:
:heart: :pointr: [link]
"Helping Animals Through Art..." :camera:
Thank you to ALL dA Affiliates of this Project. :rose:

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*Miarath May 28, 2010
Beautiful work, which is indeed, not for naught. :heart:
Lovely done. :)

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*TeaPhotography Jun 4, 2010  Professional Photographer
Thank you so much, Mia. Wow, really means a lot to me. :hug:'s :heart:

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The Shelter Project:
:heart: :pointr: [link]
"Helping Animals Through Art..." :camera:
Thank you to ALL dA Affiliates of this Project. :rose:

:peace::heart::earth::community::flowerpot:
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*Miarath Jun 6, 2010
You're most welcome, Tea. :huggle: :heart:

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