Posted by Sigismund on October 18, 2008, at 16:09:56
In reply to Re: :-( So stressed. Make that STRESSED, posted by fayeroe on October 11, 2008, at 13:22:31
Hi Pat, HI Kath
Some kids are so much more resilient than others.
It would take a lot of wisdom to know how much support is too much.
You only get one chance at life and then its over.
My daughter impressed me on the phone talking to a friend about going out drinking (Australians are basically excessive with drink) and she said
'I dunno, I suck when I'm drunk'.I was more or less living (well, not) on the street, (because you could bodgie up a room in a garage and pay only $4 a week rent) when I was that age, and we have a benign climate for the poor. And we don't have coke, which is (I suppose) a mixed blessing.
My psych amused me by saying that what we needed were ADs that felt like coke or amphetamine.Life gets pretty bloody dry sometimes, hey.
Like that old woman I knew who lived in an aged care facility (wonderful word, facility) clutching a teddy bear and living with the smell of dreadful food and excrement, and for years she hadn't said a thing when anyone visited, and one day she opened her mouth and said
'Life's not all it's cracked up to be, is it?'
And I don't think she ever said anything else.I hope I haven't depressed you.
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