How Are You Holding Up?
Someone recently asked me how I was holding up. Wow, I thought, what a loaded question. Loaded in the sense that there are so many ways to answer it, so many levels of "holding up."
So, how am I holding up? On the whole, I'd say I'm doing pretty well. If I were to measure bad days vs. good days, I'd say the good ones are winning. On the whole.
Which is not to say that within any particular good day I may not take a plunge, but the darkness seems to be shorter-lived, and that's a really big distinction, I think. When the bad days outnumbered the good, the bad feelings were pervasive and the good moments were fleeting and spare. Now the inverse is more true and I'm grateful not to be in that other place anymore.
Of course there's always that fear that the bottom might drop out at any time and everything will go to shit again, but I suppose that's just life. You basically never know what's going to happen, so as long as you have a choice about the matter, you can't let that fear rule your life. At least, that's my theory for the moment.
Kelley Polar--"We Live in an Expanding Universe" mp3 off I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling (buy)
Meredith Bragg--"Twin Arrows" mp3 off Silver Sonya (buy)
I'd have said, "With Playtex!" ;)
<i>Which is not to say that within any particular good day I may not
take a plunge, but the darkness seems to be shorter-lived, and that's a
really big distinction, I think.</i>
nat--lol--that would have been a good answer. i don't think that quick! i'm
kind of excited about all this political turmoil. i'm not ashamed to say i
hope mccain comes out of this smelling like a turd!
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