Reflecting on my session with my therapist and the emotions that came with a follow-up email from him, this mornings meditation brought the memory of when I first heard the words of Thoreau. I was a junior in high school. I'm not sure if my grandmother had died yet or not but it was the first time I heard the truth about how I was feeling. It was the first time I read it in black and white. The thoughts that were crawling through my teenage brain suddenly were affirmed. What if the hokey pokey is all it is about?
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
~Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau
The comments post email communications between my therapist and myself over the course of some pretty emotional days for me.
