Posted by Atticus on September 17, 2004, at 20:20:16
In reply to I am one, posted by Jai Narayan on September 17, 2004, at 17:08:08
I understand, given your background, given your childhood, why it is probably difficult to summon the trust to extend yourself to others and no longer feel you are just one. I had a bipolar parent myself, given to emotionally and physically violent rages that were as inexplicable as the patterns of the weather. I can only speak from my own viewpoint; extending myself to others has provided a mixture of fulfilling experiences and stinging ones. But I guess I've come to feel that happening upon one or two fulfilling ones more than balances the hurts of the much more numerous disappointing experiences. It's true that sometimes being one, being lonely, is thrust upon us. But I also realize that more often than I've realized, I've thrust it upon myself as well. Atticus
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