Comments for "The Young and the Jobless" -- Afterward

Comment on 57: perspective by tali2

tali2 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:46:44 +0000

ps. abby, your thoughts are never ever pollutants. they’re little gems, shining in this blog now and then.

Comment on 57: perspective by abby

abby — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:19:29 +0000

ps- its almost christmas. happy holidays.

Comment on 57: perspective by abby

abby — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:18:07 +0000

im feeling lonely tonight. its a recuring depression. i’ve felt it off and on since a very tragic relationship i had some years ago. i’ve dated since, and been fulfilled several times over… but its there. even at my most happiest im sometimes struck down by the utter magnitude of it. i guess i sympathize with your glass box. on the outside, i am happy and fine, the world moves on and people think i am ok. i make people laugh, i reassure those who need it. the people in my life never know. and that hurts so badly i want to cry. i need them to not know only slightly more than i need them to comfort me. my glass box is colored white. opaque, reflective and happy looking… belies the turmoil inside and the raging tempest of loneliness and despair. what do you do when enough is enough? when you miss the past so much, regret your actions and decisions so badly that you feel nothing in your immediate future can resolve the pain? years and years have gone by. time, they say, heals all. i’ve followed your blog for so long now, tho its weird to feel like you kind of know someone who has no idea who you are, i just thought… just this once, i’d pollute your space with my scary and bleak thoughts and ask what i could never hint at to those closest too me: “what do you do when the pain of being alone in the middle of a crowd is simply too much?”

Comment on 25: all divine by bhavmd

bhavmd — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:22:30 +0000

=) i loved how you described the idea that each person is a day in god’s life, and his (whatever moment in time) is what you represent. it’s takes so much of the guesswork out of asking why God made my life the way it is, and makes my life so much easier to accept as it is. well done! i like this view and i may even adapt it to my own

Comment on 24: masquerade by bhavmd

bhavmd — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:18:02 +0000

could it be that even while we’re “listening to our hearts” it feels like we’re not? why would it feel like we’re not if that’s what we’re supposed to be doing? and if the heart only gives us slight hints… how can we make it speak louder? in some people, their hearts are a booming voice inside, but in others it’s a mere whisper… why? is my heart not loud enough or are have my ears become deaf or is it that everything else in the world has increased its volume?

i need to watch “this is it” .. i hope i get to catch it before it stops playing!

Comment on 18: faith by bhavmd

bhavmd — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:42:57 +0000

i gotta give it to you… your post starts off so innocently and completely takes a turn as you talk about a girl who is drugged, raped, and only who knows what else. a complete contrast to the lives most of us lead to the way the rest of the world lives. it’s a jungle out there… but we … we live in the cities, in our own kind of jungle. everywhere you go it’s a mess, you gotta know how to survive, one tragedy is no worse than the next…it’s just another tragedy in a different form. and you are right. that mother is something special to be able to go on in life without being horribly bitter. that IS courage and strength.

great post.

Comment on 4: cleft thoughts by tali2

tali2 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:43:09 +0000

What an inspiring comment, Happy_Clefty! Thanks for the insight. Good luck with the surgery.

Comment on 4: cleft thoughts by Happy_Clefty

Happy_Clefty — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:31:56 +0000

By the way, I loved this:

“A curse yes, because it makes life difficult, and it makes you wonder why He’d get the idea of doing that. But is it also an opportunity? A key to gaining greater depth of character, greater compassion, greater understanding…a stepping stone, a tool itself that will enable this kid to understand and help others? Most spoiled, beautiful children don’t get that chance, the poor things.”

Comment on 4: cleft thoughts by Happy_Clefty

Happy_Clefty — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:26:04 +0000

The little cleft lip baby may never believe it’s a curse. I was born with a cleft lip and palate. I’m fifteen – supposedly one of those pesky “teenagers” always over-dramatizing life, “life’s not fair” and “you ruined my life” and all that jazz, right? So you’d think, if there were EVER an age where you’d believe it to be a curse, it would be now, right?

Nope. I’m facing surgery within a year – they’re going to break my jaw and put it back together. And, honestly, I think my life ROCKS right now. I am so blessed and I have such good friends and live in such a good world…my life is amazing.

The cleft lip? It’s a gift. There is no genetic or environmental reason behind it – I was pregnancy #1 for my mom, so she was sooooooo careful it’s not even funny. And NOBODY in my family had a cleft lip, unless it’s super far back.
So I believe, if there’s no medical reason, it’s just there because, well – God needed it there. It was just – part of His plan.

Comment on 11: chestnut by bhavmd

bhavmd — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:03:18 +0000

i’m in love with ur writing. i feel like if i read it long enough and often enough i’ll get used to it. that maybe if i read so much of it, then it would get predictable. but right when i think i know where your thoughts will go, it makes a fast and hard turn in completely spontaneous direction! I think to myself while i’m reading ur work.. maybe she’ll talk about this or that… and then instead of making a left or a right, it’ll jump out of the paper and go up instead! Always refreshing, it’s always a pleasure to read your work. I’m really enjoying the fact that now you’re writing something everyday for 69 days =) I have something to look forward to that has nothing to do with my life in any way. This. this is wayyyyyy better than television.