Actually, whether you are ADD or normal, books with stories or poetry, if used the right way, can not only stimulate the mind but the soul as well. That's what I used to love about writing poetry. :D


Thanks to the new love of my life, <img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c64/Draga28/Smileys/icon_redface.gif">I have been reading more and more books and some of them were good, others, ok, but the excellent ones I found had the most profound truths & wisdom thay just stuck with me and are words to live by especially when it come to accepting yourself and knowing your own worth as a person and how to deal with people who try to break you down.

Like Shakespere's Hamlet when Pallonius says, This above all - to thine own self be true/ And it must follow as the night the day/ Thou canst not then be false to any man. To me the meaning says it all.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem that is short and sweet and a world of truth in it
Thou wouldst be loved?
Then let thy heart from it's present pathway part not.
Begin everything which thou art.
Be nothing that you art not
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love a simple duty

Amen, Edgar, great bipolar minds think alike :D

Now the most recent author I admire is George RR Martin and his series, A Song of Ice and Fire. In the first book, Game of Thrones, there is one character, a dwarf named Tyrion, that I love because not only is he a smart ***, but as he is talking to a bas**** boy...who is already shunned by people because of back in the ole days, bastards just do not belong anywhere. (hmmm a dwarf and bas**** to be shunned by society simply cause they were not normal..hmmm sounds familiar)Tyrion said somethings that filled me with a sence of pride in myself.

Let me give you some counsel, bas****, Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it and it will never be used to hurt you.

Rememeber this, boy, all dwarfs may be bastards, but not all bastards need to be dwarfs.

Would you rather be called imp? Let them see their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, and make it your own. Then they can never hurt you.

If a man paints and arrow on his chest, he should expect sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him.

Are there anymore bookworms out there like me that can relate?

I am a book worm but of a different sort. I read things like John Ratey's "User's guide to the Brain", and "PC Annoyance"

I have found a simply explanation to describe ADD no matter the sub-type the root came from John Ratey "Shadow Syndromes" and my PC is still working. This would be considered as impacting my life; however, in a very different way.

The book that changed my life so that my path did a 180 is Dale Carnagies "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living"

I have memorized

"No one kicks a dead dog"

"The mind is a world unto it self it can make a heaven hell and hell heaven"





Barbra Johnson "Stick a Geranium in your Hat and Be Happy"

The first signature I had here was one I got from this book.

"Of all the things I have ever lost it is my mind I miss the most"