Hey Paige!
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Instead, I try ..........to focus my attention to those that have something real and tangible to teach me; people like .......the wonderful adult adoptees and adoptive parents that are here, among the others.
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((( Paige ))) You forgot to include you in that bud!
And you are so right. There are some incredible souls in here. You know....sometimes....I look around at my everyday life and the people in it and I remark on how they have no idea what it takes to come here and learn. Not the sharing so much....that's the easy part - to me at any rate. But the learning? Thats a toughie! LOL!
I had no idea how knee-jerk my own reactions could be. How programmed my insular basement-of-a-life had made me. Like the other day I was reading a post from someone in here and I got all out there on my self-righteous limb and then I had to stop and to say to myself, "No dumba** read it again because that's not what she's saying!" And then I looked at it twice and went "Oh! Oh yeah! I see her point!"
Learning how to hear. Always harder than learning how to speak.
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He turned 26 yesterday; perhaps this is the year I find out the paths his life has taken
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((( Paige ))) That would be a prayer answered. Perhaps one day my friend we will be able to call each other and say "Guess what?!" Such a thing that would be, would it not?
It's funny you know, here is a truth I've never admitted on here but always in the back of my mind....my next thought.....it's always for their parents - especially their mom. I worry that in my kids finding me, she will be hurt and afraid. Sigh....the last thing I want.
Jackie often said that the sign should read "Caution: Here there be Dragons".
But I think it should read, "Caution: Here there be shadows".
Hugs to you my dear friend! It is good to hear from you!