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In a message dated 1998/10/18 13:24:18, you write: << Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:26:03 -0700 From: Marling McReynolds <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: The Numbers Game/Changing Perceptions To George and others who can accept this "thing" as a "gift" and go gracefully into their future. I am very glad for you that you can accept it and live with it. I CANNOT. I will go kicking and screaming and never giving up. I do not want this disorder and I will not accept it. It MUST have a CAUSE and a METHOD, and a CURE. I will not accept anything as long as any of us must suffer with this damn thing. I feel the same way about many other disorders, but this one is in my home everyday, lives within me and I want it OUT. Marling McReynolds [log in to unmask] >> i wonder if there is some misunderstanding about the use of the word "gift" [at least in the way i use it now] i do not use the term gift here as a be-ribboned, be-jeweled, be-gift-wrapped frivolity back to scott peck: "Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." and: "Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?" the problems that we face are handed to us are given to us as tasks to solve and to learn from just as life is a gift, so is death so is pain, so is pleasure all are given as lessons not punishments not rewards just grace janet janet paterson - 51/10 - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/ [log in to unmask]