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When your past as a child, follows you as a mother, as a person.
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 670399" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>You know, Feeling, I keep thinking about your last post. I left, yes. I pursued powerful and meaningful goals, yes. To a large extent I fulfilled my potential. At least enough of it to be content. I traveled. I did nearly everything I ever wanted to do except get married. </p><p></p><p>But I lived a very lonely life. I lived my life alone until I adopted my son when I was about 40 and he was almost 2. I had friends. I had flings and a great love. But I was alone. </p><p></p><p>I paid a huge, huge price by distancing myself from my family. And what I realized in these last couple of years was that was all I really wanted. A close family. To have the best parts of what was my life as a young girl. Sewing. Women around me. Food. The ocean right near. Gardening. Mobility. </p><p></p><p>I was loved as a small child. Or had the illusion of it. That was what I wanted and did not have much of in my life. All the rest? Was filler.</p><p></p><p>At this vantage point I think it does not much matter what we do in life. It is more that we come to understand who we are and have been in our lives and come to peace with that. </p><p></p><p>And that is exactly what we are doing here so well. No matter how different our lives have been in the making of them, we come together at the same place. As mothers and daughters. </p><p></p><p>Thank you, Feeling.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 670399, member: 18958"] You know, Feeling, I keep thinking about your last post. I left, yes. I pursued powerful and meaningful goals, yes. To a large extent I fulfilled my potential. At least enough of it to be content. I traveled. I did nearly everything I ever wanted to do except get married. But I lived a very lonely life. I lived my life alone until I adopted my son when I was about 40 and he was almost 2. I had friends. I had flings and a great love. But I was alone. I paid a huge, huge price by distancing myself from my family. And what I realized in these last couple of years was that was all I really wanted. A close family. To have the best parts of what was my life as a young girl. Sewing. Women around me. Food. The ocean right near. Gardening. Mobility. I was loved as a small child. Or had the illusion of it. That was what I wanted and did not have much of in my life. All the rest? Was filler. At this vantage point I think it does not much matter what we do in life. It is more that we come to understand who we are and have been in our lives and come to peace with that. And that is exactly what we are doing here so well. No matter how different our lives have been in the making of them, we come together at the same place. As mothers and daughters. Thank you, Feeling. COPA [/QUOTE]
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