Two major thoughts struck me when I read your post, one is that whatever choices we have made, have been made. You would not be asking these questions about other possibilities if you had not made the informed choice in the first place. You could easily have choosing to be a housewife and not worry about intellectual pursuit and thereby not be asking yourself these introspective questions. The point I guess, is that while knowledge of our inner workings allows us to analyze ourselves and to look deeply at our lives, it often comes with a price. The thing to do is find the means between the two, the introspection and the living. But needless to say, welcome to the post modern world ;)
Secondly, i think your reaction to the couple dying is more normal then others. If you don't feel then it is because there is no reason to. Really, the people that are "feeling" pain an lost and are shaken are people that are less then honest with themselves and the people they talk with. If they truly felt anything for the couple then they would have befriended them while alive. Anything less is just dishonest. I respect your feelings, or lack there of, on the matter, then the personnal who is moved by the tradegy of others. Yours is honest, and honesty like that is rare, and a blessing.
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Date: 14 Nov 2004 20:49 (UTC)Secondly, i think your reaction to the couple dying is more normal then others. If you don't feel then it is because there is no reason to. Really, the people that are "feeling" pain an lost and are shaken are people that are less then honest with themselves and the people they talk with. If they truly felt anything for the couple then they would have befriended them while alive. Anything less is just dishonest. I respect your feelings, or lack there of, on the matter, then the personnal who is moved by the tradegy of others. Yours is honest, and honesty like that is rare, and a blessing.