"A Problem Page For All!"

Well, I wasn't feeling wise and mature! I'm just coping, same as you are. When I get stressed out, I get impassive and as close to logical as my illogical self will ever be. I push away my emotions as a way of dealing with them -- I dunno; maybe I feel like if I push them away, they'll sort themselves out, or at least dissipate to some extent?! I guess it must work to some degree, or I wouldn't do it. I read your posts the day you wrote them, but I was too wrapped up in myself to answer, and now I'm all cool and "wise" and "mature," and maybe I'm smart or maybe I'm just parroting my smart family members (of course we've been talking about this no end!) or maybe this is just...me. I share your worries, but I'm trying not to think about them. That's the way I deal. There's nothing we can do about that now. I'm trying to look beyond it into the future, into two years from now when we will again have a chance to elect progressives to the positions that matter, into a future that's not as painful as this present seems to be.

Is that maturity? Maybe. Maybe not. Thank you for saying that, though! It made me feel good. I seem to be coming down with some kind of flu and I'm fighting it with vitamins and potions and elixers and tonics and fasting, but all I wanted this afternoon was for you to be here so I could curl up next to you and cry myself to sleep!