W has been very chatty via email today, lots of decorating ideas and questions and daily life updates...no venting...she also called and her voice and delivery was very much like old W...hmmm...just rolling with it, no expectations.
One thing occurred to me with W being ill is how I have changed in my reaction to it...before I would be put out because of the decline in attention to me (especially after round 1 of OM, I hadn't yet recovered from it), and I would get in a bad mood and such. Not now...now I reverse it and ask "How are you, T^2, when sick? How "there" for others are you?" . So the empathy and understanding kicks in and I just check on her needs and then go do my own thing. This takes un-needed pressure off a sick person and actually benefits me because I am taking care of my own needs, and thus no bad mood, which is always a bonus.
Ah, personal growth, who'd a'thunk?
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
