Report from Bridlewood
Maybe I should write how it is here on the "other side" of the pond.
I like this website and hope that everyone will add a little something from time to time. It is hard for us here to imagine what life must be like over there for you. The comforts of home are nonexistent, I would think, other than a soft bed to lay your head. I support we should be thankful for this and keep in mind that others do not have even than luxury.
Life here? Well, there's just something missing in our lives. We say that "life must go on"; however, it seems to have been put on hold for a time now. But we do our best and draw on the foundations that were already set into place 25 years ago. It is hard for anyone to imagine what it is like unless they go through this. It's just indescribable. Others ask, "How do you do it?" or "I don't see how you do it." I don't know what to say to them because I don't give it much thought as to how or why. It's like this: Suppose you loved the color purple. The color purple made you feel great. It made you happy. You loved to be around the color purple and it fulfilled you. You think you just cannot live without the color purple in your life. Then one day the color purple just sort of vanished. There was no color purple! It just didn't exist as you knew it before. So, what do you do? Well, you can mourn and be sad and let that sadness rule over you, looking everywhere for it, becoming frustrated that you can't find it, sitting at home wishing that purple still existed....or, you could learn to like the color green!
Life doesn't always give us what we want, but it is up to us to learn to want what life has to offer us.We love you, Rope! (You look better in "green" than in "purple")
Your Annie
I like this website and hope that everyone will add a little something from time to time. It is hard for us here to imagine what life must be like over there for you. The comforts of home are nonexistent, I would think, other than a soft bed to lay your head. I support we should be thankful for this and keep in mind that others do not have even than luxury.
Life here? Well, there's just something missing in our lives. We say that "life must go on"; however, it seems to have been put on hold for a time now. But we do our best and draw on the foundations that were already set into place 25 years ago. It is hard for anyone to imagine what it is like unless they go through this. It's just indescribable. Others ask, "How do you do it?" or "I don't see how you do it." I don't know what to say to them because I don't give it much thought as to how or why. It's like this: Suppose you loved the color purple. The color purple made you feel great. It made you happy. You loved to be around the color purple and it fulfilled you. You think you just cannot live without the color purple in your life. Then one day the color purple just sort of vanished. There was no color purple! It just didn't exist as you knew it before. So, what do you do? Well, you can mourn and be sad and let that sadness rule over you, looking everywhere for it, becoming frustrated that you can't find it, sitting at home wishing that purple still existed....or, you could learn to like the color green!
Life doesn't always give us what we want, but it is up to us to learn to want what life has to offer us.We love you, Rope! (You look better in "green" than in "purple")
Your Annie
posted by Rope Burns at 6/11/2005 01:08:00 AM
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