Comments on: Fall down, then get up http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/02/fall-down-then-get-up/ A practical approach to the classical virtues Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nancy Hernandez http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/02/fall-down-then-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Nancy Hernandez Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:33:12 +0000 http://www.virtue-quest.com/?p=435#comment-116 Maybe I can comment on one issue- making the bed. My mom grew up in a part of Mexico where scorpions are known to climb up into beds. She vividly recalls the day she woke up to find a scorpion by her feet. She is so afraid of them that she insisted we make our beds every single day to make sure scorpions did not nest in there. Since then, I cannot help but make my bed every single day- even if it isn't perfect- no matter how lazy or depressed I feel- just shake it out and put the covers on. It's crazy. I know. But now I realize that what matters is not when or how I do it, but that I do it. On those days (there were many when I was younger) when all I wanted was for the world to disappear and for me to be left alone in despair, making my bed was one of the small things I could do to feel safe and more composed. I might be in midst of a horrendous depression, but golly those scorpions weren't going to get me, and my bed was going to be made. Sorry I can't be of more help! Maybe I can comment on one issue- making the bed. My mom grew up in a part of Mexico where scorpions are known to climb up into beds. She vividly recalls the day she woke up to find a scorpion by her feet. She is so afraid of them that she insisted we make our beds every single day to make sure scorpions did not nest in there. Since then, I cannot help but make my bed every single day- even if it isn’t perfect- no matter how lazy or depressed I feel- just shake it out and put the covers on. It’s crazy. I know. But now I realize that what matters is not when or how I do it, but that I do it. On those days (there were many when I was younger) when all I wanted was for the world to disappear and for me to be left alone in despair, making my bed was one of the small things I could do to feel safe and more composed. I might be in midst of a horrendous depression, but golly those scorpions weren’t going to get me, and my bed was going to be made. Sorry I can’t be of more help!

]]> By: Amy http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/02/fall-down-then-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Amy Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:26:55 +0000 http://www.virtue-quest.com/?p=435#comment-107 I've been struggling with despair, too. Maybe it's the time of year? :( It totally doesn't help that Tom has been gone this week. The thought that's been going through my head recently is the one etched into stone over Palmer Hall at CC: "Ye Shall Know the Truth, And It Shall Set You Free". It turns out it does. However, they ran out of room at the bottom for this footnote: And then it will depress the heck out of you. I’ve been struggling with despair, too. Maybe it’s the time of year? :( It totally doesn’t help that Tom has been gone this week.

The thought that’s been going through my head recently is the one etched into stone over Palmer Hall at CC: “Ye Shall Know the Truth, And It Shall Set You Free”. It turns out it does. However, they ran out of room at the bottom for this footnote: And then it will depress the heck out of you.

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