Sunday, November 14, 2004

Dave Pollard says things that I can sense but not put into words. Here he is talking about Surviving Trauma. "If the response of a species were to grieve for years over the loss, or over a decision error that may have cost a loved one their life, the species would not survive -- it would be incapacitated. In a balanced ecosystem, these traumatic events are regular but not chronic -- most species spend most of their time in the joyous activities of eating, exploring, mating, playing, sleeping, and sensing the world around them. Their failure to grieve, at least for long, is in my opinion due not to their small brains but to the fact that there is too much joy and wonder in the world to waste much time grieving over what happened or might have happened. It's Darwinian -- it happens that way because it works, it optimizes the healthy survival of the species." Reading "How to Save the World" really makes me think. Again he is able to put into worlds some of the deep feelings that I have but don't quite understand enough to be able to put into words. The pain I sometimes feel about what the girls have lost, the idea that there are things they will never be able to do because of the loss of Cindy, These are regrets for things that haven't happened. 8:48:03 PM

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