The rest is in edits. This is part of a letter I sent to my e-wife and my <3 girlfriend today. I didn’t really work this out until right now.
But the truth is, we are grownups. We feel like children because we feel worthless or scared or voiceless and that’s what children are. We feel like children because we don’t have the mad, crazyass manipulative, violent power the grownups had when we were small. But that’s just it. We’re grownups. We’re just not CRAZY growups. And most grownups may be a little batshit, but they’re not CRAZY. Not like we’re used to crazy.
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1 Thomas Thurman // Apr 17, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Quite often when you reach epiphanies before I do, I read them and I don’t understand, but I come away thinking “It’s not that this is wrong, it’s that it’s more true than I can understand yet.”
2 SilverSliver // Apr 18, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Mind if I repost this with credit/link? This really resonates with me, and I know lot of people who need to hear it.
3 binsk // Apr 25, 2008 at 6:36 am
Good realization. I think the one I had after this one is that I have the power that I choose to let myself have. That’s the scary thing about adulthood, the scary power to alter lives with that manipulative godlike power we perceived as children.
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