The Good Life
In mid October a journalist with the Cincinnati Enquirer phoned to interview me about My_Lost_Summer. The small article appeared in the Hometown section of the October 21 edition. The last paragraph reads
Fryer says that because her injury occurred at such a young age, she isn't really sure what impact it has had on her life or her personality, but she doesn't feel that she's worse off for it. "I live a really good life," she says. "I don't know that it could be much better if this hadn't happened."
This past week has been a "My Life Sucks" week. Little things at home; a big project dumped on me (and another editor) at work near deadline; I got braces--at 37--and my teeth hurt; and I was cited for a car wreck I did not cause. This all fell at THE worst time in my cycle, and I can honestly say I've never felt more down in the dumps. I've been more depressed at other times in my life, but this week I just needed a big, teary breakdown.
The day before all this happened, I had lunch with a friend whose son is in kindergarten at a Montesori school, and his teachers are telling her he is not doing well. She's upset about that, wonders whether to pull him out and enroll him in a public school (and save $800+ in tuition). I talked to another woman at work about my bad day, and she was so empathetic and then mentioned how her husband would be accompanying her 16-year-old son to court later that day. A woman at my orthodondist's office is getting a divorce after 20+ years of a good marriage.
Wow! All that puts my petty problems in perspective: my problems will blow over in a week (and they have, more or less) while the situations my friends are dealing with are personal and perhaps life-altering.
How you choose to face life's challenges is all in your perspective.
Fryer says that because her injury occurred at such a young age, she isn't really sure what impact it has had on her life or her personality, but she doesn't feel that she's worse off for it. "I live a really good life," she says. "I don't know that it could be much better if this hadn't happened."
This past week has been a "My Life Sucks" week. Little things at home; a big project dumped on me (and another editor) at work near deadline; I got braces--at 37--and my teeth hurt; and I was cited for a car wreck I did not cause. This all fell at THE worst time in my cycle, and I can honestly say I've never felt more down in the dumps. I've been more depressed at other times in my life, but this week I just needed a big, teary breakdown.
The day before all this happened, I had lunch with a friend whose son is in kindergarten at a Montesori school, and his teachers are telling her he is not doing well. She's upset about that, wonders whether to pull him out and enroll him in a public school (and save $800+ in tuition). I talked to another woman at work about my bad day, and she was so empathetic and then mentioned how her husband would be accompanying her 16-year-old son to court later that day. A woman at my orthodondist's office is getting a divorce after 20+ years of a good marriage.
Wow! All that puts my petty problems in perspective: my problems will blow over in a week (and they have, more or less) while the situations my friends are dealing with are personal and perhaps life-altering.
How you choose to face life's challenges is all in your perspective.
posted by Elizabeth Evans Fryer at 3:53 AM
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