Feeling Better
Nov. 8th, 2004 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosThank you, Everyone, for your good wishes, prayers, and whatever other positive energy you sent my way.
I was driving to work this morning, and it suddenly occurred to me (perhaps prompted by a song, but I can't remember which one) that the things I've been wrestling with these last few days -- meaning, significance, mortality, etc. -- are all inescapable "problems" of the human condition. There is nothing "wrong" in my life; the things I'm dealing with are things everyone has to deal with. In a strange way, that realization made me feel better. I could actually feel a 'click' as the gears inside my head shifted back into my normal, optimistic mode.
And I remember these lovely words uttered by Marcus on Babylon-5:
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness and of the universe.
I don't really think the universe is "hostile" -- but I'm with Marcus in that I take comfort in the thought that it's not "fair."
Love to all, and my thanks, again, for your support these last few days.
I was driving to work this morning, and it suddenly occurred to me (perhaps prompted by a song, but I can't remember which one) that the things I've been wrestling with these last few days -- meaning, significance, mortality, etc. -- are all inescapable "problems" of the human condition. There is nothing "wrong" in my life; the things I'm dealing with are things everyone has to deal with. In a strange way, that realization made me feel better. I could actually feel a 'click' as the gears inside my head shifted back into my normal, optimistic mode.
And I remember these lovely words uttered by Marcus on Babylon-5:
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness and of the universe.
I don't really think the universe is "hostile" -- but I'm with Marcus in that I take comfort in the thought that it's not "fair."
Love to all, and my thanks, again, for your support these last few days.
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Yay!
Date: 2004-11-08 11:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-09 06:09 am (UTC)So true!
But now, of course, I starting thinking: Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And - if this ever happens again - Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out! And then, which makes it even better, when she glances up. Just kidding about the God part. No offense.