skeletons and laundry
06/21/03 ~ 9:34 a.m.
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everyone's got skeletons in their closets. the thing that varies is the size of the skeleton. or the amount of them.
i remember once when i was 16 and i'd had a hard day at work (the nature company). i was going through some things with an alcoholic father and impending divorce. i didn't want to talk about it but my manager wanted to know what was wrong with me. so i told her i was having some problems at home and i didn't want to talk about them. she replied, "of course. it will be ok. just remember, everyone's got dirty laundry."
i heard it as "you're not in this alone" and also as "someone, somewhere's got it worse than you." she may not have meant it like that, but i've always gotten that from it.
i always keep that in the back of my mind because it was really forced on me when i went to alateen. alateen is the group meeting for children of alcholics. and i'd hear stories of kids being beat up, kids having to tkae care of puking, drunk parents, and kids taken away from their neglectful parents. i had to be thankful that my dad didn't beat us up or something worse. he just wasn't a true father and he broke up our family.
i keep this in mind right now. we're going through hard times, and i shouldn't belittle that fact. but it could ALWAYS be worse.
we still have power. we have internet. we have air conditioning. we have money we got from graduation.
we have love.
we'll be ok, we'll pull through it, and it won't be a skeleton in our closet anymore.
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