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I saw something very sad today.

Thoughts of a woman I met for the first time today and spent a good portion of the day dealing with are weighing on me. She was, one who knew her tells me, a brilliant woman, a good person, and a worthwhile human being. She was intelligent, talented (she was a concert pianist years ago), and caring. Now.... she's not there. Her body is, and someone's inside it, but it's not her anymore.

This has really shaken me. Her sister spent some time crying for her as we were on our way home, mourning, in a very real sense, for her sister. And I did too. I partly wept to see my friend in such pain, but I was also, in part, mourning this interesting, cared for, and greatly loved person who I will never know, and weeping for the emptiness that she's left in the hearts of those who knew her.

I didn't need a concrete reason to be wary of the hazards of substance abuse. It seems I have one anyway. *sigh* Please, my loved ones, my friends, my fellow travellers in this juncture of space-time called Earth, stay away from drugs. Whatever temporary escape and relief they offer, they can't be worth that. Nothing could be worth that.




Talked to Andrea tonight. She called just to tell me she loves me and is thinking of me... I'm doing a lot of crying today. I shed tears of happiness as I talked to her, parked in a grocery store lot on the way home. I am so very lucky to have her in my life. She is my beloved and I am hers forever...

*breathes deeply out* This has been a long day.