Posted by IsoM on January 10, 2002, at 1:34:19
In reply to Re: Snails, movement, heat, and wind » susan C, posted by Mitch on January 10, 2002, at 0:03:45
I think these little stories, like the one you related, stay with us forever helping to ground us during our "lost" periods. I'm glad I've got a collection of memories to think on when times feel bleak. To me, they're like memory jewels - something to take out & turn about in your mind's hand, to study & just feel good about.
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> I was very depressed and it was mid-summer. I was working in this little factory (just out of high school) in the middle of nowhere (the best place to be). It was probably mid-90's in there. I was fighting the urge to spontaneously cry-it was that bad. I looked over by the time clock in the corner of the factory and I saw this mouse hopping up and down trying to get into this cardboard box that all of the workers threw their orange peels, lunchtime scraps, etc. into.. Well, it made me laugh out loud. It was one of the smaller mice that hung around the plant hoping to pick up on a big meal that we would cast out unthinkingly during lunch. It jumped and hopped, and couldn't get into that box to retrieve even the smallest morsel. That "action" comedy completely switched my mood and snapped me out of the depression. I can't remember how long it lasted, but I do *remember* that very clearly. How odd...
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> Mitch
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