Posted on 06/22/2011 5:37:44 PM PDT by neverdem
Those characters weren't portrayed as insane for nothing.
Big cities are human ant farms. I had an ant farm when I was little. I’ll never live in a big city.
And Boston and Washington, D.C., and Seattle, and San Francisco, etc.
Makes sense to me.
Urban living promotes hypervigilance which comes in handy when you move to the desert or the forest and need to watch out for spiders and snakes. I’ll take s&s over urban predators any day.
I struggled for years with my father's suicide. Dad wasn't obviously or overtly "mentally ill" but was suffering from depression, nobody else in the family knew to what extent.
I got a greater understanding and a degree of acceptance when I was confronted with such physical pain of my own that I preferred death. Not that I contemplated suicide but did indeed prefer to be dead rather than suffer any more. It hit me like a ton of bricks that there are people who suffer mentally to that extent.
I'm not justifying suicide but trying to better understanding it.
I have lived in a small town most of my life and if I live to the 29th of this month, I'll be 66 years old and I want to move to a more rural area. I'd like it as long as I lived within 20-30 miles of "necessity" shopping.
The name of this painting is, The Glass of Absinthe.
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