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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gauguin who wrote (24648)	5/16/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

When I mentioned demons- you were in my mind as one of the "smarters" who have them. "Prettiers" are sometimes lonely to the point of suicide, and "richers" - well, I think of the wealthy Plano teens dying from heroin overdoses, so poor are they in other ways. Yet everyone sort of sneers at the "haves" for not appreciating how lucky they are. COmparing demons is not productive; trying to give something to ease another's pain is harder. I'm listening to how much that day means to X and her family and realizing that it might not matter what motivates people, or how infrequently, or for how long, but that it happens at all is a start, so I'll stop saying we should be like that all the time and just be grateful for any of it! When I think about X, I think how lucky her son is to have her on his side. But I feel so sad because I know that she, as his mother, will suffer every hurt even more than he will, and by transference and empathy, she'll suffer for every challenged child. On the other hand, she is a warrior woman..and I wouldn't want to get in the way of that mind and will.