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It's a difficult position. Many of us are teetering on the edge. I couldn't support my wife and I while she continued what she was working on, I had to move hom
by neom 4y ago
It's a difficult position. Many of us are teetering on the edge. I couldn't support my wife and I while she continued what she was working on, I had to move home with my parents while she continued on her own so at least one of us could move forward. I felt ashamed, unless, hopeless. We spent over 6 months apart, but our marriage survived, and so did I.
This really helped me:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Get out into nature for a day, leave your phone at home, observe reality, walk. The world is mighty, and so are you. :)
- fredoliveira 4y agoAbsolutely lovely. Not OP, but thank you for that.
- slantaclaus 4y agoChatGPT says "I felt ashamed, unless, hopeless." is not a grammatically correct sentence but it makes sense to me.
- mdwalters 4y agoProbably the "unless" part made it think it was grammatically incorrect
- SeanAnderson 4y agoI think the author meant to say "useless"
- neom 4y agoUsless speeling at is me ;)