I donโt know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. Itโs funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel weโve committed some crime.
Deb CalettiSometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
Deb CalettiOr so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.
Deb CalettiIt occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
Deb CalettiYeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.
Deb CalettiIt was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.
Deb Caletti