Posted by Dinah on July 16, 2008, at 23:46:04
I was listening to a book about history today, and thinking of the truly horrific conditions my ancestors lived under. And the truly horrific conditions so many people have lived under. Conditions where it wouldn't really be all that hard to die. Conditions they had no real chance or hope of escaping. Conditions they probably expected, rightly, to live under for the whole of their not terribly long lives.
Yet people choose to fight on and persevere.
I don't get it.
It's always in the back of my mind that if things get too bad, I can always die. I can't wrap my mind around people living through things way worse than my "too bad" would likely ever be, and struggling to survive.
I recognize that I'm rather avoidant and in some ways lacking in will. I crumple at the first challenge.
But I really really don't understand.
poster:Dinah
thread:840086
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