Hope is the thing with feathers...
Little pieces of hope, smiles and loveliness.
“Dropping in and out of your own life…isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (and the odds are not in your favour), you’re lonely there. The people you boarded with originally are far, far ahead of you, and now you’re stuck playing catch-up.”
— The Centre Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
The Centre Cannot Hold…
I’ve just finished reading The Centre Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks, which is about her life with schizophrenia. It contained some interesting and brutally honest ideas and opinions about living with a mental illness, and the couple of quotes below really stood out for me and made me think about myself and others, and life and society in general.
“…I had a Republican superego when it came to mentally ill friends. I’d pushed myself for years; that pushing had helped me survive. So I wasn’t yet ready to allow for someone else what I could not allow for myself.”
“I think you’ve given in. You’re way too comfortable in the role of a mentally ill person.”
