Occasionally I find our similarities make it easier for me to be kinder to myself, because you are so clearly striving to live a life in proportion with your principles and the great gifts of insight you have cultivated in yourself, and struggling with many of the same uncertainities that depression poses to insight and seems at times to make mockery of it.
(I have been trying to write some version of this comment here or on one of your recent posts for several days, and am feeling very inarticulate at getting to the part where feeling finds form in sense; please be patient with me!)
What I am trying to get at is this, I think: at times you are open about the hard things in your life in a way that utterly takes my breath away, and sometimes makes me teary for feeling less alone in having experienced similar things. And I guess I'm going to have to resort to poetry after all, because otherwise this comment is just going to go on and on and on. ;o)
and really, impossible burdens and impossible courages are the sum of all the possibilities you burn to keep on living
I am very, very grateful to have you among my circle here on DW. I hope to get less awkward about admiring you greatly and wanting to be always Very Articulate in commenting on things you write, because I'd rather be vulnerable imperfect with you and be more your friend than dance at a distance in a mutual admiration society however dragon happy my pride might be at the concept of 'mutual admiration' oh brain.
Some specific things you do (since I know how much specific helps with brainthings): I think your tumblr curation of things is among the best I've encountered, and I miss daily tumblr checking these days mostly because I miss seeing what you and a very small handful of other people are finding interesting and worthy of note these days. Can there be a 'BFF' version of 'OTP'? If yes, you + felines would definitely be one of mine. I admire what you bring to your work and the advocacy you do there and elsewhere around helping the world arc more to justice and more to access for kids who have such need and are often surrounded by people who write them off.
I have faith (not phrasing I usually tend to, but feels right here) that your life also will arc to justice and access for you. It may take a long time; it very likely will be full of unexpected curves, sorrows and graces and laughter and incredibly hard things. But I hope you know and trust that you have people to lean on, and that I count myself among them.
Also, someday, oneday, I will get to feed you my cooking (if that would please you) instead of occasional words, because that is a thing I offer my friends, and I count you among them. :o)
Re: staranise
Occasionally I find our similarities make it easier for me to be kinder to myself, because you are so clearly striving to live a life in proportion with your principles and the great gifts of insight you have cultivated in yourself, and struggling with many of the same uncertainities that depression poses to insight and seems at times to make mockery of it.
(I have been trying to write some version of this comment here or on one of your recent posts for several days, and am feeling very inarticulate at getting to the part where feeling finds form in sense; please be patient with me!)
What I am trying to get at is this, I think: at times you are open about the hard things in your life in a way that utterly takes my breath away, and sometimes makes me teary for feeling less alone in having experienced similar things. And I guess I'm going to have to resort to poetry after all, because otherwise this comment is just going to go on and on and on. ;o)
What I Mean When I Say 'Depressed'
Where Light Gets In
Load-Bearing
I am very, very grateful to have you among my circle here on DW. I hope to get less awkward about admiring you greatly and wanting to be always Very Articulate in commenting on things you write, because I'd rather be vulnerable imperfect with you and be more your friend than dance at a distance in a mutual admiration society
however dragon happy my pride might be at the concept of 'mutual admiration' oh brain.Some specific things you do (since I know how much specific helps with brainthings): I think your tumblr curation of things is among the best I've encountered, and I miss daily tumblr checking these days mostly because I miss seeing what you and a very small handful of other people are finding interesting and worthy of note these days. Can there be a 'BFF' version of 'OTP'? If yes, you + felines would definitely be one of mine. I admire what you bring to your work and the advocacy you do there and elsewhere around helping the world arc more to justice and more to access for kids who have such need and are often surrounded by people who write them off.
I have faith (not phrasing I usually tend to, but feels right here) that your life also will arc to justice and access for you. It may take a long time; it very likely will be full of unexpected curves, sorrows and graces and laughter and incredibly hard things. But I hope you know and trust that you have people to lean on, and that I count myself among them.
Also, someday, oneday, I will get to feed you my cooking (if that would please you) instead of occasional words, because that is a thing I offer my friends, and I count you among them. :o)
Yours,
J.J.