Posted by pseudoname on October 11, 2006, at 21:58:47
In reply to Re: “Everyone should be depressed” (?) » pseudoname, posted by Declan on October 10, 2006, at 15:46:20
I don't find stories like that pianist with the brain tumor encouraging. The problem is exactly what you say: "in the end he was more or less resigned to handling his lot as well as he could"
I have not handled my lot as well as I could. I *do* not handle it as well as I can. I handle it badly; I do nothing. People do not admire me or write it up in the paper how bravely I bear my troubles. They see me as pathetic, merely. What's left in that life is not satisfying to me as a human being.
The pianist still had something in his life that could give him pleasure; there's a huge gulf between my cancer-free head and his.
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