Reply #7: My feeling is this... [View All]

[ninkasi]

The intense pain of your experiences has led you to be a source of comfort, compassion, and healing to others. While these are admirable qualities, and we need more people like you, please give yourself permission to mourn your own lost happiness.

Although I do not know you, your pain, and your compassion, come through quite clearly; be at peace. Know that if nothing else, someone else, if only a stranger like me...feels compassion and sorrow for your unhappy youth, and the hardships you endured.

Perhaps those experiences are what lead you now to protest this dreadful war, and your desire to bring our troops home before more families are damaged. I wish you happiness in the remaining years of your life.