Andrea Gibson

A few things that I just wanted for myself that I didn't have until these last years.

One was a loving relationship with my mortalities.

And I think people get a little fearful of that because they think that's what's going to create more suicide.

I think it would do the opposite, actually.

A loving relationship with mortality, which does not mean a joyful, like you're thrilled to die.

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.

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.