The Extraordinary found in the Ordinary
Ok, yep, I have definitely been accused of thinking too much. ( which is really funny for an ADD mind.. The converse is I have been accused of not thinking at all!! -- Hey, have I typed that one before? I need to check my other posts!!)
well, ahem, back to topic:
I was listening to the Duran Duran song, "Ordinary World" and even though it has absolutely nothing to do with ADHD, I found myself thinking how the song might apply.
Especially the chorus:
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
When I was first diagnosed, there were many yesterdays that I "cried for". The poor grades, the misunderstandings, lost friendships, failures, all the what ifs that occur to an adult ADHDer, " If only I had been treated sooner." Would I have graduated high school in the top 10% of my class? Would I have made better friends? Would I have been so lonely? Would there have been a place that I truly felt like I fit in? What did I miss out on personally, professionally, spiritually?? All of these things came flooding into my mind.
Funny how a song can touch you in a way that the author never intended. Its about a girl, a relationship, not a disorder. But you know? A lot of the lyrics fit.
No, I won't cry for yesterday any longer.. I'm looking for my ordinary world. There are those that would completely disagree with me. Who wants to be ordinary? That's boring!! I'll take my ADDledness over boring ol ordinary any day!
People forget that its really in the ordinary that the truly EXTRAORDINARY can be found.
Examples?
How about an ordinary field --- but with extraordinary secrets ready to be discovered? Wildflowers blooming in Springtime, ladybugs, butterflies adding beauty to the landscape. Is that really so ordinary?
Treating my ADD, I am, for the most part, an ordinary woman: I have no special rank or status, but under the ordinary, commonplace perception of me: There is something extraordinary. I know it's there, its hidden under all the mess ups, failures, and "foot in the mouth moments" that have represented my life.
The underlying extraordinary qualities: the creativity, the zest for knowledge, the inquisitive nature.. These things have come closer to the surface since becoming more "ordinary".
I am learning to survive in this ordinary world. I may never fit in, but I will make my way. In doing so, I will find those extraordinary things that make each of us a special part of God's creation.
well, ahem, back to topic:
I was listening to the Duran Duran song, "Ordinary World" and even though it has absolutely nothing to do with ADHD, I found myself thinking how the song might apply.
Especially the chorus:
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
When I was first diagnosed, there were many yesterdays that I "cried for". The poor grades, the misunderstandings, lost friendships, failures, all the what ifs that occur to an adult ADHDer, " If only I had been treated sooner." Would I have graduated high school in the top 10% of my class? Would I have made better friends? Would I have been so lonely? Would there have been a place that I truly felt like I fit in? What did I miss out on personally, professionally, spiritually?? All of these things came flooding into my mind.
Funny how a song can touch you in a way that the author never intended. Its about a girl, a relationship, not a disorder. But you know? A lot of the lyrics fit.
No, I won't cry for yesterday any longer.. I'm looking for my ordinary world. There are those that would completely disagree with me. Who wants to be ordinary? That's boring!! I'll take my ADDledness over boring ol ordinary any day!
People forget that its really in the ordinary that the truly EXTRAORDINARY can be found.
Examples?
How about an ordinary field --- but with extraordinary secrets ready to be discovered? Wildflowers blooming in Springtime, ladybugs, butterflies adding beauty to the landscape. Is that really so ordinary?
Treating my ADD, I am, for the most part, an ordinary woman: I have no special rank or status, but under the ordinary, commonplace perception of me: There is something extraordinary. I know it's there, its hidden under all the mess ups, failures, and "foot in the mouth moments" that have represented my life.
The underlying extraordinary qualities: the creativity, the zest for knowledge, the inquisitive nature.. These things have come closer to the surface since becoming more "ordinary".
I am learning to survive in this ordinary world. I may never fit in, but I will make my way. In doing so, I will find those extraordinary things that make each of us a special part of God's creation.
posted by sher at 3:28 PM
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