No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha Beck
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- We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
- Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
- No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
- Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
- Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.