I was scrolling through my news feed and saw this post from humans of New York:
"We've been trying for a few years. We both want it very badly, but it's probably been hardest on my wife. It's her body and she's been the one that's had to go through all the treatments, so I think the failure hits her hardest. It seems especially unfair because she's the sweetest and most liked person I know. Sometimes it's hard to keep our frustration from becoming the focus of the relationship, but it's also brought us closer together and given us a shared goal. We've got another treatment in a couple weeks. It's a very advanced procedure and we're very hopeful about this one."
"Will you be OK whatever the outcome?"
"'OK' might be too strong a word, but we'll definitely survive."
It started making me think of survival again and made me question if you really do have to be okay to survive Our narrator certainly has survived something, but it brings me to the question is she okay? I think it is a little early to answer this question though I could certainly start. Just something to think about.
I love humans of New York! I personally do not think you have to be ok to survive, because from what it seems so far, the narrator is not ok. She isn't able to discuss her feelings to whoever the man she is with, and she keeps going back and forth of her own opinion of herself. Whatever tragedy she went through, she is not ok, but she is surviving, not necessarily living though.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Although she thinks she has conquered her devil and has emerged stronger from the tragedy she went through, she is keeping all of her pain instead.
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