Had a patient today. Lost her mom at 6. Was raised by a grandmother, who's now suffering from cancer. Got addicted to heroin. Brothers in jail. Has kids, and pleads with us to let her go for a few hours so she can take care of some family business involving some trouble the kids are in at school.
Dismiss her as someone who is just addicted to something and is making excuses for it? Dismiss her as someone who is trying to lie to you? Dismiss her as someone who cannot be helped?
All three can be as easily answered YES. As easy as making a guy trust you, or fall for you. (Inside joke,black humor). But take a step back. Take a second to think. Put your vanity and pride aside and look beyond her trying to con you.
This is a human life we are trying to deal with and fix. Hard to accept, but just like you and me. One and all. Less fortunate. Once again, as I always say, imagine ourselves in that situation. Imagine growing up like that. Without a family stabilising you at every hard decision you had to make. Having to possibly visit your loved ones in jail. No education. No idea or concept of right or wrong. More distinctly, an absolute and completely different principle to life than us. To have to sell yourself for some drugs, or to get by, and not feel anything about it. I would say you have won half the battle against the world's vices if you can even fathom the distance between her life and yours.
Thus starts the turmoil again, of questions. This is a human life. How can it be so random? I know people who have every aspect of their life regulated by their loved ones towards 'success' and 'happiness'. How does this planet accomodate such bloody extremes? ....will finish soon.
Dismiss her as someone who is just addicted to something and is making excuses for it? Dismiss her as someone who is trying to lie to you? Dismiss her as someone who cannot be helped?
All three can be as easily answered YES. As easy as making a guy trust you, or fall for you. (Inside joke,black humor). But take a step back. Take a second to think. Put your vanity and pride aside and look beyond her trying to con you.
This is a human life we are trying to deal with and fix. Hard to accept, but just like you and me. One and all. Less fortunate. Once again, as I always say, imagine ourselves in that situation. Imagine growing up like that. Without a family stabilising you at every hard decision you had to make. Having to possibly visit your loved ones in jail. No education. No idea or concept of right or wrong. More distinctly, an absolute and completely different principle to life than us. To have to sell yourself for some drugs, or to get by, and not feel anything about it. I would say you have won half the battle against the world's vices if you can even fathom the distance between her life and yours.
Thus starts the turmoil again, of questions. This is a human life. How can it be so random? I know people who have every aspect of their life regulated by their loved ones towards 'success' and 'happiness'. How does this planet accomodate such bloody extremes? ....will finish soon.
That's about that. The second issue is with these people who cannot for one minute sympathise with such people.
For now, I just need some happy, simple people in my life...pray. Like that happiest kid in the pic above.
All that skiing and golfing and huge tv does seem to help!! So for someone who said money can't buy happiness, I'd say I'd rather be sad in a ferrari than a toyota. And you can't spread happiness if you don't cultivate happiness in yourself, it being a state of mind and all that... will surely finish soon!!!!!
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