1234: For what, it’s as easy as…
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/23
I used to cry a lot as a kid, as there were many negative events happening at that time.
This became quiet hurt as a teenager, while the painful events evolved and flowed in other directions.
They were sourced different, too.
It’s difficult to say how much cognizance was there, for any of us really,
because we weren’t fully there.
And I cannot call the childhood particularly tragic,
as there were genuine moments and periods of happiness and definitive provision.
But I do find myself signposting the nightly crying,
the ennui, the reflection,
which are different than a savoury silence.
Michael J. Fox when he was given his diagnosis. His reflection was not,
“Why me?” But,
“Why not me?”
That’s appropriate.
My childhood circumstances not only were, but are,
as they’re integrated and part of my life.
Things are, and I am.
I find value in that.
I found value in the lessons of the tears,
of knowing,
albeit in hindsight.
For instance, the ability to develop internal reserve and resolute centring.
Many “things” that “are” exist as an opportunity for an interpretive lens for the “I am.” The “value in the lessons” of “life” sit inchoate in the “painful events” and the “negative events.”
So, are they negative?
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