For Mary

[richard ford]

This was very moving. This post was supposed to be a reply to her Thai post

Whenever a life is set to paper it seems little more than an account of chaos and waste. Hardly anyone ends up being the person they really intended to be. John Lennon said life is what happens when planning other things.

Your father came from an unpromising beginning but was able to support a family and have his daughter love him. He can be proud of this. My own father is probably dead but I never knew the time or place.

You have also received some hard knocks but you have never taken the easy option and hated men because of it. You had an excuse to do so.... you had a bad divorce for instance. You even share your fathers low self esteem! I hope this is improving now.

Do you condem yourself because you did not get educated like your father? I bet the Jehovas Witnesses discoraged you from this. They call it 'selfish learning'.

[TestSubject]

Sorry, I know this post wasn't directed to me but...

you have never taken the easy option and hated men because of it.

Read some of her older posts.  She did take that option for a bit, then grew beyond it.

I bet the Jehovas Witnesses discoraged you from this. They call it 'selfish learning'.

No, they don't.  That's quite an oversimplification.  They view secular education as inferior to spiritual education.