Short term

Feelings are not always a choice. I feel pain, or heat, or cold, or jealousy, or a million other things.

Sometimes I can put on a sweater, or take one off, but other times it isn't that simple.

Just knowing why I'm feeling the way I do can be a mystery. It's easy to blame one thing, but I am a complex creature. My mind could still be dealing with things I thought were long past, or it could be gearing up to protect me from something that might never happen.

Personally I have learned to find short term solutions to what seem to be long term problems and that really helps. I can deal with most things for a short amount of time and the time in between, when things are okay, tends to get longer and longer.

I keep hoping the problems are gone. They still tend to turn up somewhere along the line, but each time I become a little more adept at dealing with them.