According to Lao-tse, the more man interfered with the natural balance produced and governed by the universal laws, the further away the harmony retreated into the distance. The more forcing, the more trouble.(Emphasis mine.) Whether heavy or light, wet or dry, fast or slow, everything had its own nature already within it, which could not be violated without causing difficulties. When abstract and arbitrary rules were imposed from the outside, struggle was inevitable. Only then did life become sour.
This struck a cord with me a coulple of months before the bomb. I even included it in a letter to my H. Just a reminder to me to let him be himself. He needs time alone (so do I! ). If he's in a bad mood or seems down, it doesn't necessarily mean he's upset with me. "I'm really tired." probably means I'm really tired.
Just some reminders for me.
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"Somehow we survive, and tenderness frustrated does not wither." Dennis Brutus, South African poet
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
). If he's in a bad mood or seems down, it doesn't necessarily mean he's upset with me. "I'm really tired." probably means I'm really tired. 
