This is the story of a real person I happen to know. Have you ever felt the way she feels?
Usually, she puts on a brave smile instead of revealing her inner pain, but now she sobs into her pillows.
She hasn’t slept more than two hours in the past three nights. In spite of her complete exhaustion, her physical pain woke her at two am from a deep sleep. It seared through her right foot and leg like a knife, causing drops of anguish to stream down her face.
Although the woman tried every way she knows to combat the pain, she still cried herself back to sleep. But two and a half hours later, intense spasms disrupted her troubled rest again.
Recently she has been clenching her teeth so badly that she now needs $600 in dental work. But, thank goodness she remembered to remove her nightguard from its case and press it against her top teeth before she went to bed. Perhaps she won’t end up with any more damaged teeth.
Her physical pain is very real.
But she also mourns for another reason. Last week, her mother died. For the past few years, her mother lived with her older sister Donna over a thousand miles away. Sadly, Donna didn’t bother to let her know when this pivotal event occurred, nor did Donna mention her in her Mother’s obituary.
Donna had alienated this real woman from her Mother, so she didn’t even get to say goodbye to one of the most important people in her life. Last year, her sister somehow got a few crazy ideas that she’d done things she hadn’t done and inflamed her Mother’s heart and mind.
The crying woman knows it isn’t her own fault that she didn’t say goodbye to her mother, with whom she was never close. But since she is a peacemaker, she would have loved the chance to do this.
Yes, Mother and I had a poor relationship, but if only I could have said goodbye! Damn Donna! May she rot in hell! she told me.
Yesterday, she called several attorneys where Donna lives. One of them told her that her sister treated her this way to keep her from getting any inheritance. Another told her to take her sister to court for personal injury.
“Let’s see what your mother’s will says,” the third attorney said. “If your sister’s alienation resulted in you not inheriting the same amount that your sister got, we’ll take her to court. AND WE WILL WIN.”
She has some real reasons for her depression today, but she’ll keep going as best she can.
If you are like the real woman in this story and suffer from depression, never forget you are in good company.
Always remember that you are a special person and don’t ever consider giving up!
Let the encouraging words in these bobbiejrae posts help you
soar like an eagle above life’s storms.
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Why did I write this post?
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