As a known parent, I guess, first of all with the Pandemic Suffering Oplympics. I don't get it! Do people not like their children? I will remember the lockdown for as long as I live as a golden time, where I got to just be at home with my kids all the time, months on end. Neither they nor I have had this chance before, as my commute is 800km and I spend half the time away, and then when I'm home The Girl (the kids' mother, if you remember her nickname from way back when) is away. I basically see her at weekends, and not all of those. During lockdown however we were all home all the time. Heaven!
In contrast, the people I know who don't have kids had a much harder time, with loneliness and depression rampant. I *ought* to have surviver's guilt, I guess, but I decided not to. I'm just grateful beyond words. And just a little guilty that I'm a little sad that things are slowly going back to "normal".
Also I broke my foot in January 2020, rather mysteriously. We were hobbling siblings for a while there!
I LOVE that realisation in your mental health chapter, that your stimulated self is your real self. LOVE IT. Do I not call you Hurricane? Have I not always called you Hurricane Yiskah? Cos that's who you are to me, the Hurricane, and not some passive object buffeted by the wind. People like me are exposed to the winds, and weather them better or worse, but YOU! You are a force of Nature.
And I guess finally, I'm SO looking forward to your next books. Get them published! Your readers clamour for more!
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Date: 2021-01-12 02:27 pm (UTC)As a known parent, I guess, first of all with the Pandemic Suffering Oplympics. I don't get it! Do people not like their children? I will remember the lockdown for as long as I live as a golden time, where I got to just be at home with my kids all the time, months on end. Neither they nor I have had this chance before, as my commute is 800km and I spend half the time away, and then when I'm home The Girl (the kids' mother, if you remember her nickname from way back when) is away. I basically see her at weekends, and not all of those. During lockdown however we were all home all the time. Heaven!
In contrast, the people I know who don't have kids had a much harder time, with loneliness and depression rampant. I *ought* to have surviver's guilt, I guess, but I decided not to. I'm just grateful beyond words. And just a little guilty that I'm a little sad that things are slowly going back to "normal".
Also I broke my foot in January 2020, rather mysteriously. We were hobbling siblings for a while there!
I LOVE that realisation in your mental health chapter, that your stimulated self is your real self. LOVE IT. Do I not call you Hurricane? Have I not always called you Hurricane Yiskah? Cos that's who you are to me, the Hurricane, and not some passive object buffeted by the wind. People like me are exposed to the winds, and weather them better or worse, but YOU! You are a force of Nature.
And I guess finally, I'm SO looking forward to your next books. Get them published! Your readers clamour for more!