tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post4406794647896060662..comments2024-02-15T17:04:14.226+01:00Comments on Jane Is The One: Seven people or things who changed my life (7) Elizajanestheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-33597813201408431232010-10-24T23:44:23.796+02:002010-10-24T23:44:23.796+02:00I suppose that optimism and seizing the future is...I suppose that optimism and seizing the future is not always possible.<br />Not that it isn't sometimes and not that it doesn't work sometimes but it doesn't have to. There is no guarantee at all that it will.<br /><br />Hardship and unjustness is often what destroys a person.<br /><br />I used to believe thast what didn't destroy you made you stronger but I don't now.<br />In my experience it just nibbles and erodes away -- until nothing of any value or resilience is left.<br /><br />It is no good being a brave little resilient soldier if the door is shut, the key has been taken and everyone else is partying elswhere.Just a load of old cliche really.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-62882752208635949252010-10-24T18:15:17.917+02:002010-10-24T18:15:17.917+02:00Interested in the take that commenters here have o...Interested in the take that commenters here have on this. This post was written in hope and optimism - but those commenting seem rather depressed - "life ain't fair" and so on - and that is not how I feel, and felt, at all. So we are not communicating veery well at all on this thread. Pity.janestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-86209897490553639452010-10-23T20:55:08.574+02:002010-10-23T20:55:08.574+02:00Unfortunately there is always something left to l...Unfortunately there is always something left to lose.<br />Even things you had forgotten you had and did not value until you didn't have them and therefore realised that they had been there.<br /><br />To him that hath shall be given.<br />To him that hath not shall be taken even that which he hath.<br />Or in modern parlance - life just ain't fair mate. So lump it.Long time dead and all that and sooner than you think too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-67514633742466575552010-10-23T13:51:29.299+02:002010-10-23T13:51:29.299+02:00Freedom just another word for nothing left to lose...Freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-396775846509607802010-10-23T12:11:43.191+02:002010-10-23T12:11:43.191+02:00I agree with the last anonymous - and also, again ...I agree with the last anonymous - and also, again point to the relevance of Candia McWilliam's book as listed above. <br /><br />Unfortunately, and sadly, there are not always happy endings or resolved endings - or 'life is better than it was before I went through fire and tribulation' endings.<br /><br />Becuase life isnt' like that;it should be but it just ain't. It is for some people and it would be good to feel happy for them,. But not always easy I am afraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-81424324346388982752010-10-22T22:35:24.657+02:002010-10-22T22:35:24.657+02:00It is perverse that hardship and unjustness is oft...It is perverse that hardship and unjustness is often what makes a person. <br /><br />Perhaps our lives these days do not allow sufficient time for contemplation so it is only with the starkness of rejection that we are forced to reassess what is important to us and what to make of our lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-25919872688064576532010-10-22T15:20:44.343+02:002010-10-22T15:20:44.343+02:00Read 'What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in ...Read 'What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness' - I have nearly finished this amazing book and 'Eliza' links in with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com