Thoughts & Quotes

I have a right to be treated with respect as an intelligent , capable and equal human being
I have a right to state my own needs and set my own priorities as a person independant of any roles that I may assume in life
I have a right to express my feelings
I have a right to express my feelings and values
I have a right to say 'No' or 'Yes' for myself
I have a right to say 'No' or 'Yes' for myself
I have a right to make mistakes
I have the right to change my mind
I have a right to say 'I don't understand' and to ask for more information
I have a right to ask for what I want
I have a right to deal with others without being dependent on them for approval
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Say to yourself each morning "I do not need the reactions of others to validate myself or my personality"
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to us.
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact

My mum been an alcoholic for an awfully long time and they way she is now is the only way i actually the way me and my brother rememeber her it is sad, because my dad has told me a thousand times she was never like this the way she is now and she loved me and my brothers but, proberly the hardest thing for me and my brother is actually we have no actual memory of her like that and for me thats the world's most heartbreaking thing for me because were i'm only seventeen and my mum been an alcoholic since i was little i don't rememeber the mum that i felt i could say i love you because i meant it and i say it not to hurt her feelings or cause an arguement. even tho i know her drinking not my fault i feel like she blames me for everything and this what really upset me lately when it snowed she decided to join us outside for a snowball fight and what upset me the most she decided to act like my mum and treat me like her daughter not the usually invisible person thats not even worth the mud on the bottom of your shoes and it made me well angry that she did that i mean why can't she be like that all the time and it made me so angry i took most of it out on my friend when i didn't mean too =[. i've told some friends that i trust about her but when i tell them what happens they don't know what to say cause they don't wanna make it worse, my mum has put me off for alcohol for life it makes me sick everytime she drunk because of the stupid alcohol my childhood been ruined and all i wanna now is why the hell she did it changed from the mum i found photos of with me before she was like this why the hell she decided to chuck it all away for an answer that won't be at the bottom of a bottle of no return just why!