Climbing Invisible Mountains

ALOHA

Friend!

Welcome to Friday

in

Waikiki

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See the lighthouse?

"Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence."
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Japanese visitors are always stylishly dressed.

Americans, Europeans et al merely cover our nakedness

with shorts and t-shirts.

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days.

One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
Leonard Cohen

Partying Gecko

"Noble deeds and hot baths

are the best cures for depression."
Dodie Smith

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A person suffering depression said:

"It's like climbing mountains,

peak after impossible peak,

and never getting anywhere in this life.

It's like climbing invisible mountains."

Immediately I knew what they meant.

For I have spent most of my life

negotiating

those same lonely peaks.

Drinking in

the Waikiki sun,

and the sheer joy

of not freezing,

I wonder:

Does merely living day to day

in relative peace

constitute success

in a life such as mine

has been?

Socrates taught us that:

"There is nothing stable in human affairs;

therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity,

or undue depression in adversity."

What do YOU think?

"Nobody realizes

that some people expend

tremendous energy

merely to be

normal."

Camus

ALOHA, Cloudia