Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

What If VS. Oh Well

30DBC - 19th Jan - Prompt: Share with us your favorite inspirational or motivational quote, passage, or song lyric.

I'm trying really hard, today, to chip away at the black clouds. I hate the black clouds - they make my brain stop working the way I know it can. But they keep coming and they've been at it for far too long, It is time they melted away. Sometimes, the only way for that to happen is to force them back. Maybe they'll return. But for now it's working.

I've just done 5 jobs I've been putting off for ages. Progress = a hole in the clouds.

Let's just get these posts done before my brain gives up. I have other stuff I want to do

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I think we've had this prompt before during 30DBC? Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure we have. I'm also pretty sure my answer today will be the same as last time

As a motivational speaker, in a way, I come up with motivational quotes all the time. Sometimes I say stuff and have no clue where it came from It's a bit like a "huh!" moment. Sometimes it makes total sense and I use it again. Occasionally, though, I find myself thinking 'what a load of bollocks'

There is one thing I always say, though. It is a quote I actually thought I had made up myself. But then I found it online one day, credited to 'Anon'. So, I don't credit anyone... I just say it as part of one of my stories.

I usually say it in relation to the day at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games when I was told not to race due to a severe shoulder injury. I've told this story in this blog before, so I won't go into it all again.
But my favourite motivational type quote is this...

I would rather have a life full of 'oh wells'
than a life full of 'what ifs'

It's true. What is the point of saying 'what if'? Give it a go... if it goes wrong, the worst you can/should say is 'oh well'.