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Posted by: Art (artnscience-(at)-yahoo.com) on 3/29/1998@16:33hrs:
In Reply to: Re: "It's a great life if you don't weaken" posted by: ~*Donna*~ on 3/29/1998@11:11hrs:
Donna, Thanks Donna for your nice words. I have tremendous compassion for your battle with Breast Cancer. Isn't it interesting that those things that you would think would disenfranchise us from living are most often the very things that make our lives whole. My grandmother, who "authored" that phrase about a great life is the same woman who left her homeland in Norway for America, not knowing what her future would be. While it may be romantic to talk about her husband's adventure building the Panama Canal, the truth of the matter was that he was not there during seven critical years of my mother and uncle's lives. My mother was two when he left for Panama. She had an older sister who died before her twentieth birthday shortly after my grandfather came home. She lived in a wealthy neighborhood in New Jersey but his pay occasionally did not come home so she had to do laundry for the neighbors to get by. Shame and pride permeated their lives.
I learned a lot from them about living and surviving the unknown. I wish their strength, embodied by "It's a great life if you don't weaken," brings strength to you as you prolong your days without tumor recurrence.
Your statement that we are exchanging soul on the web is true because it really does not matter what we do or what s*x we are or what we look like when all that is seen are the words on a screen. Yet intimacy can be achieved if people are willing to share. This "virtual" intimacy need not violate privacy or cause pain if people respect it for what it is. Furthermore, if real feelings are expressed the consequences for others to learn about us or themselves is enhanced.
I have found that writing on the web has helped me learn more about myself. It has also reassured me that the world is a wonderful place filled with real people whose souls I genuinely love.
Thanks again for your response and good luck with your "Heart and Soul" website.