Usefulness

We're reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie for Adolescent Lit. class. While doing my reading tonight, this quote struck me:

"If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear."


The last few days I've written about things that this illness has damaged. I do care about all of them enough, and I have cried myself to sleep at night about them.

I guess I've just been using the tears, the pain, and the fear for making myself upset.

I guess I've been looking at it the wrong way. I don't know how I am going to use my upcoming tears, pain and fear, but I'm not going to let them go to waste any more.

Thanks, Sherman Alexie.