October 2009-October 2010
What had
seemed like support during my agoraphobic years, I now interpreted as
encouragement to give up, to stop trying when life got hard. I was angry that
that was her advice any time I felt overwhelmed. I started looking at where
that philosophy had gotten her. I judged her. She sensed that, and she quoted
Oscar Wilde at me. “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they
judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” This time was painful for
both of us and we both looked forward to the end of my overdue teenage
rebellion.
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