Do you remember REM's song, "Everybody Hurts"? Maybe if David had listened to this song, he might have hung on. I know that this song works for me!
5PM - Perspectives
During my several weeks living in the San Diego area, I have seen many people living on the streets. Compared to these street people, I have a fantastically wonderful and rich life. A roof over my head. My own bathroom, kitchen, bed. I have heaters to keep me warm at nite. This is my physical perspective.
However, there is an emotional perspective as well. Viewing myself thru this perspective, I see a diminished family. Nobody to celebrate Mother's Day. No place on Earth that I call home. But still, even from this emotional perspective I am doing really great. But I have to use my imagination to bring this perspective into view.
There are many innocent persons in prison. I am better off than these poor souls. Survivors of the Holocaust who came to the United States leaving behind much of their murdered family. I am better off than them. There are sick persons in hospitals. I am better off than them too.
If you are reading between my lines, you may be guessing that I am still struggling. Still trying to get on top of the loss of my home in Concord, California. But I am not struggling all the time. Only sometimes.
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