Ego boosting for kimmaline

[greybeta]

Next on my ego boosting list is kimmaline. She is an LJ friend that I met through my sensei, theferrett. Something about my comments.

Over time, I have gotten to know you better. You currently reside in California. You love baseball, and your team is the Oakland Athletics (I happen to think Beane knows what he is doing). You make good cookies and muffins, even if you mess them up every once in awhile. You love penguins. You have the misfortune of being disabled at a young age, a victim of a very bizarre circumstance.

That's who you are. But what do I think about you? I must say that you are a courageous and caring person.

How I would know that you a very courageous person, having only read a small part of your life on your livejournal? I know because of the fact that you write, and what you write reveals a lot about you. You may think that raging about your circumstance is a weakness, but it is said that our greatest weakness is our greatest strength. We're human, and it is in that humanity we live.

You see that. And you know what? You saw that before your bizzare circumstance. This I do know because someone who had not seen that would have been crushed by what has happened to you. You were not, nor will you be. Now, you may protest that it was your circumstance that opened your eyes.

But, Kim, what if your eyes had nothing to see? So I am reminded of a quote from my high school AP Psychology class:

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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[kimmaline.livejournal.com]

*sniff*

Thank you so much. That was definitely an ego boost. And you quoted Elizabeth Kubler-Ross...someone I adore.

Thank you.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

:)