Cheap Therapy

Posted on February 25th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Literary.

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” - T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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Just Juggling

Posted on February 24th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Work, Relationships, Education, Personal, Omnia Vanitas.

I remember how easy everything was when I was younger. Staying up for three days straight, pounding out papers, and living off Snickers bars and Mountain Dew, I felt like I could do anything I put my mind to. But I am just so tired right now. There is this sense of defeat that I am coming to identify as feeling “old,” simply worn out. My hair is going gray, my body hurts, and I’m gaining weight again. Stuff is piling up around me, and I’m barely wading through it in time. It’s just one thing after another — between work, family, and school, there’s just no time for anything else. I know this isn’t an unusal situation, and that there are people out there who have worse things weighing on them. People who have lost their family, never had the chance to gain an education, or have to figure out how to feed themselves, not just pay the tax man. But I just don’t understand how people can go through life like this? I just don’t have the strength for it anymore.

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