Posted by Crooked Heart on March 8, 2004, at 8:40:08
In reply to Re: women without children, posted by Pfinstegg on March 7, 2004, at 22:58:34
>- there are so many ways to live a full, meaningful life, even when one has to battle an emotional illness. Becoming one's truest self, using some of our gifts and talents both to fulfill ourselves, and to make a small contribution to the world, and making connections to others (perhaps just one or two others)...
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>That expresses so well how I feel, increasingly, as I get older (and maybe therapy is still working!). Sometimes I would look back and think how much better I could have done in this world in every way if it hadn't been for the s**t that was dumped upon me much too early (well from birth in fact). Now I can't be bothered with that, the bad stuff happened, there were things I couldn't do, but I don't want to let it go on diminishing my life.
And the little things, the connections, the (imperfect) relationships, small actions, activities unimportant in the big scheme of things, OK so they're not going to set the world on fire, but they feel worthwhile and important to me.
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