There were purple M&Ms in my bag.
Apr. 30th, 2002 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hermionesviolinI noticed last night (because i have the Smith homepage as my homepage) that now there is indeed a website up. Wonder what Mia will have to say about this.
The Jolt says “The Gyutu Monks will be in residence at Smith all week, making a butter sculpture in Neilson Browsing Room every day from 10am to 3pm.” I’m going to go check it out this afternoon.
From a friend:
Regarding drama and college life:
"It's like a game: 'whose crises will put my crises in perspective?'"
I was thinking recently that i’m probably going to have some sort of emotional breakdown in a few years. How long can one go on being a source of support and strength for people? It’s like i’m not allowed to have emotional problems or be too stressed or anything because i have to be there for other people. How has my mother done this for so many years? I am in awe of her strength. I’m not really going to have a breakdown, though; i have wonderful supportive friends and family who are always there for me. Plus i know when i need to take time for myself. I think one of my summer plans, though, is going to be to surround myself with emotionally healthy people.
An online acquaintance (whom i worry about because she is often depressed and otherwise in a bad way) has been dissatisfied with her weight recently and joined this community![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thinspirational. Just skimming it made me want to vomit, and not because i want to be thinner. I want to vomit; i want to cry. If you want to be healthier, more power to you, but why this fixation on weight. Anorexia, bullemia, all “eating disorders” are the farthest thing from healthy. Anorexia frightens me so much.
The Jolt says “The Gyutu Monks will be in residence at Smith all week, making a butter sculpture in Neilson Browsing Room every day from 10am to 3pm.” I’m going to go check it out this afternoon.
From a friend:
Regarding drama and college life:
"It's like a game: 'whose crises will put my crises in perspective?'"
I was thinking recently that i’m probably going to have some sort of emotional breakdown in a few years. How long can one go on being a source of support and strength for people? It’s like i’m not allowed to have emotional problems or be too stressed or anything because i have to be there for other people. How has my mother done this for so many years? I am in awe of her strength. I’m not really going to have a breakdown, though; i have wonderful supportive friends and family who are always there for me. Plus i know when i need to take time for myself. I think one of my summer plans, though, is going to be to surround myself with emotionally healthy people.
An online acquaintance (whom i worry about because she is often depressed and otherwise in a bad way) has been dissatisfied with her weight recently and joined this community
thinspirational. Just skimming it made me want to vomit, and not because i want to be thinner. I want to vomit; i want to cry. If you want to be healthier, more power to you, but why this fixation on weight. Anorexia, bullemia, all “eating disorders” are the farthest thing from healthy. Anorexia frightens me so much.
from The Mommy
Date: 2002-04-30 11:29 am (UTC)But it is true that I feel the way you do at times.
You have always been good at knowing when you "need to be alone." Keep it up and it will give you the resources to draw on.
I feel obliged to put in a plug for God here, as well -- I often think that much of my life has been an act of grace that is beyond my control. And Daddy would point out that I have made myown "luck." For me, God is in the quiet -- which is perhaps why I am crashing around the edges these days. But also in the community of good souls -- which you seem to be developing.
Remember the motherly image of God you once had? I suggest you draw on that even now, in the largely non-religious world in which you find yourself.
Was it Sharon who said if these ranting activist actually lived good lives it would change things? She's totally on target -- and living a good, intentional, life is the hardest thing imaginable.
Longer than I meant to be -- but (in between work, trying to sleep, and Mom-watch) you're in my thoughts, and always in my heart