A Bit of Insight - September 5, 2007

Kay Jamison is a professor of psychiatry and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, which she herself suffers from.  I'm doing some research on her for a paper and ran across this amazing piece of insight.  I was so impressed I just had to share.  It's a bit wordy, but sooo true!  Give it a read…

"I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons.  Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is.  And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces.  There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.  It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships."

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