LJ Idol Week 26: Face to Face

[fourzoas]

Comments

[cacophonesque]

There's a lot here that I could connect with... mostly the hard parts. But it was beautifully written and I think it captures that challenging relationship of loving an alcoholic parent in spite of their flaws.

[fourzoas]

Thank you--it is tough, especially when the A word is not really acknowledged or accepted by most of the participating parties. We muddle through...

[notbatman]

There's a tenderness here that I really enjoyed.

You can see enough that maybe your father wasn't always what we all hope for, but there's also an acknowledgment of the good that makes him come off as more human, if that makes any sense. That there's a complete, complicated person and relationship rather than what is often portrayed as the one-dimensional AlcoDad.

[fourzoas]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment; if there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that no one is any one thing ever. We flatten the people we hate so that we can hate them; we love when we see them in three dimensions, although sometimes that love is best demonstrated by carefully cultivating enough distance so that we can have perspective.

[rattsu]

This post is just filled with the sweetness and bitterness of life.

[fourzoas]

Thank you!

[talon]

This was all sorts of conflicted, I think, but in a good way, without being muddy or confusing.

Life's just about coping and doing the best we can, I suppose.

[fourzoas]

Thanks--coping is, I find, a messy and complicated process.

[m_malcontent]

well done.

[fourzoas]

Thanks!