There are pretty wide age gasps between the three kids in my family. Nine between me and my older sister (I'm 51, she's 60), and seven between me and my younger brother (he's 44.), and I never really thought anything of it. Then maybe 15 years ago my sister said something about mom having had two miscarriages. I've sometimes wondered about my two missing siblings.
You've been in my thoughts lately, and I really wanted to send you some massive words of wisdom, but nothing came up that wasn't pompous up the tuchis. However your use of the word "fragile" reminded me of something from my second depressive smack-down. When I got stabilized after-wards I remembered thinking "Boy,I'm a lot more fragile than I ever thought, and a lot stronger than I ever could believe."
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Date: 2008-02-15 06:21 pm (UTC)You've been in my thoughts lately, and I really wanted to send you some massive words of wisdom, but nothing came up that wasn't pompous up the tuchis. However your use of the word "fragile" reminded me of something from my second depressive smack-down. When I got stabilized after-wards I remembered thinking "Boy,I'm a lot more fragile than I ever thought, and a lot stronger than I ever could believe."
And I think that's true of many of us.