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To: epicure who wrote (84874)	8/4/2000 9:54:50 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Precisely....And I admire you for your endurance of difficult situations, and am glad that eventually you were freed.....

To: epicure who wrote (84874)	8/4/2000 10:46:38 AM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

And you know what X? You survived, you thrived, and those experiences have become threads in the fabric of your character (one I happen to like a lot.) You'd be a much less interesting person to me had you not dealt with those challenges successfully. I'll bet you and your husband might even have some fond remembrances of that period. ( In musician circles that period's called "paying your dues" and many a night we've sat around laughing about sleeping in a Maverick and eating Red Hots and Slim Jims for dinner.) So what do we do now that we've "made it"? Go into hyperconservative mode so that we don't risk what we've accumulated. Your "catastophe" ideation is precisely what my post to Neo addressed. Catastrophe is very rare--we're too resilient and smart and resourceful to allow it to happen. It does happen to some, but so infrequently that to use it as an excuse to avoid taking risks in our lives seems to me rather sad. I just giving y'all a report from the Far Side. I dance on uncertainty with regularity, and have probably become inured to the stress and anxiety, but my not having a family doesn't invalidate my perceptions. I could have a family and still take most of the risks I do, because I BELIEVE I CAN. I KNOW I CAN, and am confident everything will turn out alright. It just does. It always has, and until life brings the hammer down on me, I'll keep on believing that.