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May 23, 2024
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Laina's avatar

Same. So much the same. Even my cat died yesterday. Wish I could just walk off the screen but still have obligations to stick around for. 😘

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Laina's avatar

Thank you. I am just zombie-ing through work today. Losing a sister is so much harder, I'm sure. You have my deepest sympathy.

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Gérard Mclean's avatar

I’m so sorry… cats, just .. they are so small and yet, when they leave it’s like a reframing silence. I’ve lived with three and the last one tore my heart out… thought she was a dog, would bark with the pack, go on walks… 🥲

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Gérard Mclean's avatar

*deafening silence.

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Gérard Mclean's avatar

I did have to push away and go walking with my dog after this one… it was… a draft too long… thank you.

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Kirsten Powers's avatar

"Or how I have spent my entire life making life frictionless for others and realize now too late that I have not done what I wanted without compromise." It's not too late!!! Today could be the day you stop doing that and start doing what you want.

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The Chaos Trials's avatar

Exactly. Always don't be doing that!

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Gérard Mclean's avatar

Yeah… I would be more alone and just one giant arsehole. 🥲 things about other people you discover during a pandemic… anyway. Maybe I will…

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Gérard Mclean's avatar

I shouldn’t share in public but my path to Denmark was… dampened a bit this morning … so I hit publish on this …. anyway, your post inspires and keeps the 🔥 alive… I’ll find a way…

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Annexes's avatar

I think some people would say I am 'something', having a Ph.D., but it feels like nothing too. It probably wouldn't make a big difference had you been a doctor or whatever. 'Most weekends, I wallow in the sad. Joy is a luxury I can’t afford.' - that is a mindset I share it with you, unfortunately. Social isolation is a nightmare. Regardless, realizing it is a mindset is also the way up - Kirsten is right. It really never is too late to do something! What's small to you might be big to others, and vice versa.

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Felicia C. Sullivan's avatar

If it’s any consolation, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with small. 😊

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Monica P.'s avatar

Ugh. I hear you. I feel you. Ok, so I’m older. 73. So much I wish I would have done when I was younger. I hate that you have got me thinking about the past. It’s hard to put myself first. I was the wife, the mother and grandmother and volunteer. I hate when I’m too honest.

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Gérard Mclean's avatar

I see this photo, over ~45 years since I moved away from that neighborhood, and I can still smell the air, the dirt, the street and sidewalks in the hot, humid Minnesota summertime. Weird how places will always have their own smells.

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