RC - you’re an FR institution! Maybe an institution in need of institutionalization, and one I can disagree with, but you add to my life, man!
Faith - it is often what keeps me going. Faith is the drive to plod forward when it looks like there’s not any reason to plod forward. It will pay off in the end - and even if you think it won’t pay off for YOU, it will pay off for others who are in your life, WHETHER OR NOT YOU REALIZE YOU’RE IN THEIR LIFE!
I attended a funeral this fall for a very talented engineer who committed suicide in the most public of ways (jumping off a building). I never, ever, want to go through that again, nor put anyone else through that. The sense of unfathomable, inconsolable loss and damage to other people still haunts me 4 months later.
So many people killing themselves these days. People who have a lot of going for them - Madoff’s son Mark, still wealthy, still having a family, a federal prosecutor in a well publicized case (I forget the name, it was in the WSJ a couple of weeks ago), also with a career and a family, and here I am, sitting in a cold basement without a career, without a family and only with an FR family, and with my cowardice, when the most famous bridge in the world is a half hour drive away to jump from. But yes, there are the children, adults now, and the effect this would have on them.
Stop yo whining, I hear a next post in response to this one.
Yeah, volunteer with the SPCA, teach children of prisoners to read, that’s what tell you at the clinic and the groups of whiners. Sorry...