Comments on: Welcome to my life

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By: tracy m

tracy m — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:56:04 +0000

Susan, your crazy life and how you have come out of it so wonderful is part of what makes you so beautiful.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:12:38 +0000

Wow, I’m 47 and I thought I’d had a crazy life but mine’s been calm and ordinary, as I now see. =) Don’t worry about dying too soon, though. We’re all gonna live forever, and there’s lots more to do and experience. =)

By: Eve

Eve — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:27:22 +0000

I can’t believe how many of us around here are about the same age.

I’m 35 too, but my life has been so incredibly different from yours. It blows my mind someone about my age could have a 17-year-old son. If we ever manage to have kids, well…obviously it will be a long time before any of them are seventeen!

I found your descriptions of your brother’s and sister’s deaths especially heartbreaking. I think I would find that almost unbearably painful. (My mom’s youngest sister just died very suddenly two days before Christmas. I can’t really imagine what that’s like for her.)

By: Susan M

Susan M — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:03:42 +0000

I should probably call it a late youth crisis, but to be honest, I’ll be surprised if I live even into my 70’s!

By: Norbert

Norbert — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:45:17 +0000

This is a wonderful post. I’m about six months older than you, and the details of our lives couldn’t be more different. But the elements are the same: death, birth, risk, rituals, family and love.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been keeping a crisis just barely at bay for the last six years…although I’d call it a Late Youth crisis.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:58:11 +0000

I like your attitude, Clark.

I’ve always loved that JL quote. Sometimes I relate more to this Patty Griffin line though:

In the battle of time, in the battle of will
It’s only hope and your heart that gets killed

Haha.

meems drop me an email: whenigodeaf at gmail dot com.

By: clark

clark — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:26:05 +0000

I had my mid life crisis at 30. It was much easier that way. Now I have it out of the way and don’t have to worry.

By: meems

meems — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:49:08 +0000

Mark IV, you stole my quote! Actually I posted this quote on fMh last week, and the silly thing wouldn’t go through, so I gave up. It’s my favorite lyric of all time. Just thinking about it makes me cry.

I know what you mean, Susan, about this mid-life crisis. I’m older than you, but my kids are younger, and already, at ages 6 & 7 I’m aching for the days when they were still toddlers. I feel like I messed them up already! I should’ve been more, done more. I wish I could have another chance at this whole thing.

This morning I woke up at 4:15 and laid there wide awake just thinking about my life, and what I should do, and what I wish I could do, etc. Total mid-life crisis, enhanced by what I’m thinking are hormones!

BTW, Susan, I met U2 in San Francisco as well! My claim to fame, I suppose. We had breakfast at the Holiday Inn. It was their first stop on their first American tour. I’m guessing the year was something like 81 or 82. I’d love to swap stories with you!

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:31:49 +0000

“What I remember most vividly is what it felt like to go under the water, and what it felt like coming up out of it: like a burial and a resurrection.”

Frankly, this was my favourite part.