Re: Medisheddi to the Consulting Room please...

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention. wrote:

I've spent fruitless hours in the past wondering whether The Boy's
illness is somehow my fault and castigating myself for mistakes I made,
but you really shouldn't do that, there's no point in it. You need to
keep your energy and your self-esteem whole and healthy to fight Emily's
future battles.

Even if, as some people genuinely can, you can identify one of those "Trousers of time" moments where you made a clear choice, all anyone can honestly say is that if they had made the other choice, things Might have turned out Differently [1].

So many people spend forever beating themselves [2] up in the belief that if they had only chosen differently at one moment in time, everything which has gone wrong would have turned out all tickety-boo.

[1] Differently. Not necessarily better, or worse, just differently.

[2] Or, sometimes, others.

--
JonG
I went to the polling station, but the only option
given was to vote for one or other of the politicians.
.

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