I'm one of the lucky ones

[mshcherbatskaya]

I was reading wearethe99percent.tumblr.com and scaring the shit out of myself. I'm comparably prosperous right now, but god, I could so easily be one of the posters there. I was telling my doctor yesterday how incredibly lucky I've been and he looked at me kind of funny. That's when it occurred to me that being afflicted with Rapid Cycling Bipolar I would be considered by most people to be extremely unlucky. So I amended my statement to say that I seemed to have taken all my bad luck and crammed it into one place--my head. But the fact is, I have a job, health insurance, and less than $1000 of debt. True, I have no house, no car, and no college degree, but I'm OK with that. I also have not much savings, and considering I'm going to be 42 years old in fairly short order, that is something I need to change. But still--for a crazy person, I'm seriously blessed.