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#Trust30 Challenge, Day 28

Jun 27, 2011 12:22

Today's Challenge:

When did you feel most alive recently? Where were you? What did you smell? What sights and sounds did you experience? Capture that moment on paper and recall that feeling. Then, when it's time to create something, read your own words to reclaim a sense of being to motivate you to complete a task at hand.

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annieover June 27 2011, 21:41:42 UTC

You know the scene where the Grinch's heart grows three sizes? Moments like this make you feel like you've been the Grinch all your life and you didn't even know it. All of a sudden your heart wants to encompass all of existence.

lifepart3 June 27 2011, 21:52:10 UTC

Yeah, it's funny how you can be missing something your whole life and not even realize it. In many cases, I think it's just perspective, and there are other ways to reach it, but kids have a way of bringing on perspective fast and furious.

drmagoo June 27 2011, 21:57:20 UTC

The standup comedian Louis CK has a show on FX that's offensive in virtually every way, but part of it is about his life as a divorced dad with two daughters. During the last episode, he had a scene (part of a standup routine) where he said “Any parent who is honest will tell you, you live with that ambivalence. You look at the face of your beautiful, lovely child and you think two things at the exact same time: ‘I love this kid so much that it‘s changed my whole life. I love other people more because of how much I love her. I love people that died years ago more. My love has traveled time because of how completely I love her and she loves me back. She’s completely given value to life that didn’t exist before and I regret every decision that led to her birth’. That’s how it feels.”

Now, I don't regret the decisions, but I really liked that description of how having children affected his ability to love.

annieover June 27 2011, 22:07:09 UTC

As a divorced parent, I can relate to the ambivalence. It's hard for me to wish I could undo my marriage when that would mean not having the boys. Sometimes people say to me, "Don't you wish you had a daughter?" and I have to be clear that while having a daughter would be nice, I would only want her in addition to the boys I already have. There is nothing in my life I would change if it meant I no longer got to have the boys in my life.

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