But not in a bad way! I don't always comment but I want you to know how much these musings mean to me. They often hit home at just the right moment, and they *always* leave me with something to reflect on. Thank you for sharing them with us—it’s so generous of you to give us a glimpse into your thoughts.
Sometimes the trouble with others leaving is you can eventually end up drinking alone.
My partnership [not married but 20 years together] is something akin to circus plate spinning. We really do manage to keep a lot of plates going at once. Occasionally one gets dropped, but a replacement is soon back up.
Good point on the first one... and I like the spinning plate analogy. So long as you've got more plates, and the willingness to keep spinning... it keeps going.
Oof. Definitely seeing a thread running through these. There is definitely danger in living an unexamined life, but examine too… clinically, and it becomes unextraordinary.
Were these deeper than usual, or is it my mood that made them seem so? I honestly can't tell.
It's funny, I chose them more or less at random from the big pile, but looking at them now, they do seem quite... heavy!
But not in a bad way! I don't always comment but I want you to know how much these musings mean to me. They often hit home at just the right moment, and they *always* leave me with something to reflect on. Thank you for sharing them with us—it’s so generous of you to give us a glimpse into your thoughts.
On the first two…
Sometimes the trouble with others leaving is you can eventually end up drinking alone.
My partnership [not married but 20 years together] is something akin to circus plate spinning. We really do manage to keep a lot of plates going at once. Occasionally one gets dropped, but a replacement is soon back up.
Good point on the first one... and I like the spinning plate analogy. So long as you've got more plates, and the willingness to keep spinning... it keeps going.
We have, I think, a lifetime's supply of plates. The relationship seems to survive the occasional dropped bit of crockery very well.
The drinking alone is the bit I do not look forward to. Eventually it must happen to someone.
Dr Frankenmum is an untapped gem
What even is that?
"You don't have to still be alive to be somebody's mother"
There's probably a great horror-comedy in there about a Frankenmum
Oof. Definitely seeing a thread running through these. There is definitely danger in living an unexamined life, but examine too… clinically, and it becomes unextraordinary.
Yes, this is a pretty heavy selection, I realize now!
I love this "The deepest eyes reflect back the person you should be, not the one you are."
It's a similar sentiment to that expressed by Henry Rollins in "Low Self Opinion"
https://youtu.be/rKb6Ik0Jm3s?si=VE4RTM-1eho-nw1N
I shall go listen...
Do you see the comment I see
When I see you commenting on me?
The comment I see is so, so different
Believe me!
"That’s how you deal with death. That’s how you put it in its place."
I REALLY needed to read this in 2013 when I lost my first close friend from school.
NOW is the second best time to read this.
Thank you.
Putting death in its place is a life's work... and those friend losses are hard.