From Average to Awesome: Lessons for Living an Extraordinary Life

 

 

 

Chapter 4

Don't Go to Pity Parties

 

I won't allow myself to regress to past failures unless it is to analyze how I could have done them differently or better. I live each day to the fullest. I'd rather burn out than rust out. Life is too short to spend it complaining. I enjoy living!

—ROBERTA SALISBURY, HINCKLEY, ME

 

Have you ever had a pity party? Come on. You know, those parties where you sit around moaning and groaning, heaving and grieving, crying and complaining, whining and worrying about some misfortune that has happened to you—and then not doing anything about it. I've had my share!

Being raised in a single-parent family did not trigger them; nor did my family's lack of money and lack of material wealth. I was challenged ...