Regardless of what you are, where you're from, or what you have been through in everyday life, you are able to benefit from reading Sue Krupa's debut memoir, I Just Looked Up. Sue takes you on the heart-wrenching journey of her childhood, allowing you to experience firsthand all her hardships and heartbreaks: becoming an adult having a mother struggling with bipolar disorder, divorce ripping her family apart and estranging her from her siblings, recurring tragedy and loss. You watch her transform from a frightened and lonely young girl to a loving and forgiving woman, despite all the misfortunes she faced and pain she was caused. She gives you a deeper check out the mind of someone struggling with mental illness and consistently proves how important it's to reside an existence filled with love and empathy.
Below are some inspirational one-liners from Sue Krupa's memoir:
“You need to break apart to determine exactly what you're made from.”
“I had come to know the damaging memories were just that-memories. Memories are made to be left behind for cherishing, learning from, redefining, once we make brand new ones by living in as soon as. My past isn't my identity.”
“There aren't any true arrivals, just continuous journeys. I'd become convinced that I had been supposed to arrive at some perfect destination and also have all of the solutions to the enigmatic questions posed by life. But what I kept smacking facing was the fact that there is no arrival point, just an unceasing journey to repeatedly be.”
“Our wounds often speak for us. More often than not we are unconscious of the items messages we are sending to one another.”
“A broken piece of glass can always be put together again. Although it seems to be different once it's mended, it is still exactly the same glass. The cracks and lines add significant character towards the depth of the items was previously perfectly clear and whole. Now, the facets join together to inform a brand new story.”
“That's the saddest a part of mental illness, though, is no one gets to control its powerful grip or if this appears.”
“Solemn recognition of pain is the gift that ties us together within the human experience.”
“We choose what we should do with our memories. We either allow the gloomy ones destroy us or walk us into bitter dispositions, or we choose to sift through them, learn from them, study them, and enable these to rock us very gently, granting us new perceptions of compassion and love. There's a reason that we have a past tense. It is there we need to leave our heartache behind, allowing time for you to wash us clean of yesterday's calamities. Staying contained in as soon as is integral to emotional well-being. The present buoys the soul through distressful immersions.”
“Every soul you meet provides a reflection for you to learn and grow from. Be prepared to determine yourself in everyone and everything. Our humanity is life's greatest mirror.”
“When life gets hard and nothing makes sense, it's time to stop, reevaluate, making well thought-out plans to change it all. We get to create the endings to our story-and they're meant to be beautiful, regardless of what we've come from.”
“I know 100 percent which i would not have the depth, character, compassion, love, patience, or desire to discontinue legacies for my own children without the sad a part of my individual journey.”
“Without the experience of darkness, light is not as powerful or bright. Without light, we cannot truly see all that there's at the front of us.”
“We aren't here to repair one another; we're here to love one another.”
“Should you really want to converge with another soul in this lifetime then you must get the skill of bestowing empathy. Empathy is a distinct characteristic that drives us to talk about others' feelings and project our understanding to their experience. Empathy compels us to relate and gracefully connect to others once we step into their world, reminding them that they matter and therefore are been sent. Empathy moves us not only to want to share our sentiments and sympathies, but it motivates us to validate, commune, and attach once we do, bringing humanity alive.”
“Expression is an unbounded art- This is actually the gift we all receive from storytelling: connection.”
“You need to get focusing on changing the things that threaten to limit your successes. Whenever you meet the bravery inside of you, there isn't any turning back. Courage urges us to save ourselves from ourselves.”
Sue's memoir reminds you that you are not alone in your suffering, regardless of what kind of pain you are experiencing. Whether you are struggling with a mental illness or living amongst one, Sue's insightful message is exactly what you have to hear to choose yourself up and going.
