Andrea Gibson
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It means a respect for it because I think our mortality is what... makes this life rich. Think about it, whatever your favorite food is. If somebody said, you can eat this every single minute for the rest of your life, like yuck, like you don't want anything forever. I remember being really young in church and hearing that hell was burning for eternity.
It means a respect for it because I think our mortality is what... makes this life rich. Think about it, whatever your favorite food is. If somebody said, you can eat this every single minute for the rest of your life, like yuck, like you don't want anything forever. I remember being really young in church and hearing that hell was burning for eternity.
It means a respect for it because I think our mortality is what... makes this life rich. Think about it, whatever your favorite food is. If somebody said, you can eat this every single minute for the rest of your life, like yuck, like you don't want anything forever. I remember being really young in church and hearing that hell was burning for eternity.
And I remember the kids in my Sunday school class, like getting terrified of the burning I remember freaking out about the word eternity. And I knew at a young age that anything happening forever would be hell. But what I didn't know at that time, which I've learned this year, is that applies to living too. That if we were to live forever, that would be hell.
And I remember the kids in my Sunday school class, like getting terrified of the burning I remember freaking out about the word eternity. And I knew at a young age that anything happening forever would be hell. But what I didn't know at that time, which I've learned this year, is that applies to living too. That if we were to live forever, that would be hell.
And I remember the kids in my Sunday school class, like getting terrified of the burning I remember freaking out about the word eternity. And I knew at a young age that anything happening forever would be hell. But what I didn't know at that time, which I've learned this year, is that applies to living too. That if we were to live forever, that would be hell.
There is something that makes this life beautiful and that is the brevity of it. So that's one thing. Another thing is to look for this because I have spent my entire career encouraging people to have their feelings. Don't push down your feelings. Open up to them all. That is where, in my experience, if I would get depressed, I could...
There is something that makes this life beautiful and that is the brevity of it. So that's one thing. Another thing is to look for this because I have spent my entire career encouraging people to have their feelings. Don't push down your feelings. Open up to them all. That is where, in my experience, if I would get depressed, I could...
There is something that makes this life beautiful and that is the brevity of it. So that's one thing. Another thing is to look for this because I have spent my entire career encouraging people to have their feelings. Don't push down your feelings. Open up to them all. That is where, in my experience, if I would get depressed, I could...
I could, and I know this, and I don't want to negate the fact of clinical depression and meds, all of that, I'm pro meds, but I would get more depressed if there was something I wasn't allowing myself to feel. And I thought, I am allowing myself to have all my feelings. Why aren't I fucking happy? And I realized that the feeling I was pushing down was joy, that I was afraid of that feeling.
I could, and I know this, and I don't want to negate the fact of clinical depression and meds, all of that, I'm pro meds, but I would get more depressed if there was something I wasn't allowing myself to feel. And I thought, I am allowing myself to have all my feelings. Why aren't I fucking happy? And I realized that the feeling I was pushing down was joy, that I was afraid of that feeling.
I could, and I know this, and I don't want to negate the fact of clinical depression and meds, all of that, I'm pro meds, but I would get more depressed if there was something I wasn't allowing myself to feel. And I thought, I am allowing myself to have all my feelings. Why aren't I fucking happy? And I realized that the feeling I was pushing down was joy, that I was afraid of that feeling.
And there were a certain number of things that led to that. And some of it was how I was relating to our culture, how I was relating to activism, growing up in activist communities, and thinking that if you weren't devastated, if you weren't despairing, if you weren't enraged, then there was something about you that was heartless.
And there were a certain number of things that led to that. And some of it was how I was relating to our culture, how I was relating to activism, growing up in activist communities, and thinking that if you weren't devastated, if you weren't despairing, if you weren't enraged, then there was something about you that was heartless.
And there were a certain number of things that led to that. And some of it was how I was relating to our culture, how I was relating to activism, growing up in activist communities, and thinking that if you weren't devastated, if you weren't despairing, if you weren't enraged, then there was something about you that was heartless.
And some people respond to the world in really vibrant ways because they're furious or because they're grieving. For me, I am much better and I have far more to offer the world when I am joyful. And so I learned that I was pushing down my joy But I also had to learn how to open that up. And for me, the opening up of that included a few things.
And some people respond to the world in really vibrant ways because they're furious or because they're grieving. For me, I am much better and I have far more to offer the world when I am joyful. And so I learned that I was pushing down my joy But I also had to learn how to open that up. And for me, the opening up of that included a few things.
And some people respond to the world in really vibrant ways because they're furious or because they're grieving. For me, I am much better and I have far more to offer the world when I am joyful. And so I learned that I was pushing down my joy But I also had to learn how to open that up. And for me, the opening up of that included a few things.
One, I heard this thing that said, and I don't know who said it, life is difficult, but it stops being difficult if you expect it to be difficult. If you expect it to be difficult, it stops being as difficult. As soon as I realized that all these things that were coming my way Were life coming my way? Were God coming my way? Even if I wanted to call it the devil, everything coming my way was God.
One, I heard this thing that said, and I don't know who said it, life is difficult, but it stops being difficult if you expect it to be difficult. If you expect it to be difficult, it stops being as difficult. As soon as I realized that all these things that were coming my way Were life coming my way? Were God coming my way? Even if I wanted to call it the devil, everything coming my way was God.