Hi, how’s it going? Hope you are doing well.

I heard a true story about a ridiculous situation this week. Apparently, there was this grandmother who was taking care of her grandson full-time. Her spouse had a long history of drug abuse, and even of drug dealing.

The grandmother was tired one morning and didn’t want to bother to take her grandson to school, so she asked her husband to do it for her. Well, the husband took their grandson to school, and then didn’t come back. She had to go on the bus to pick her grandson up from school later that day.

That night, the husband still didn’t show up. Two mornings later, at 4 o’clock in the morning, he calls her saying the car had been stolen. It almost makes me wonder if he didn’t sell it for drugs. Especially since he called her but didn’t bother to call the police about it.

But regardless of if he sold it or if he left it in a way that was irresponsible, I’m completely convinced that it was his fault that the car got stolen.

Now, the grandmother is left without a car, and still has to get her grandson to and from school, not to mention other errands. She should have never let him use the car in the first place – she should have known better with his history. But she wasn’t thinking very clearly at the time, and now she is paying the price for it.

How often do you do that same sort of thing? That is, how often do you put your future into someone else’s hands?

Did you know that no one else will care about your future as much as you do? It’s not their future to worry about. Some people, especially those close to you, will care to some extent, but it still won’t be as much as you do.

Plus, they are still human and have plenty of potential for failure. So they could end up messing up your whole life if you put your future into their hands. Yet people who have bipolar disorder do this all the time. They let their supporters do all of the work for them when it comes to their recovery.

They depend on their supporters for financial resources, because they have spent all of their own money. They focus too much on their desires of the moment to even worry about their future.

Are you like this? I hope not. But if you are, now is the time to change. You need to take charge of your own future, and do everything you can to secure it.

You will still need your supporters, after all, you can’t do everything. Even people who don’t have bipolar still need friends and family for this reason. But if you take charge of your own future, then you won’t be using them as a crutch any longer.

I know, it’s easy enough to use bipolar disorder as a reason to say you can’t. But the truth is, you can. If you are following your treatment plan and working towards recovery, then you can decide how you want your future to look and base your current actions on that.

But you have to be following your treatment plan first. So there’s your first step, and an idea of how to go about it after that. How can you implement a plan that will help secure your future to be the way you want it to be?

Well, I have to go!

Your Friend,

Dave