Hello @Bec1985 and @Misty-Mirrors
I was shocked that the psychologist dismissed street people as criminals. I sold cards in Sydney subways when I was a child. But if she likes you and likes people that is important. Maybe she was just trying to protect you.
One lady I helped a lot became edgy when she saw me at the supermarket. I was friendly but she was ashamed and angry that I had seen how her great need. It was just pride. I felt gutted by her poverty which was among the most extreme I had seen in recent times with teenage kids from my son's school in sleeping bags on floor. I had it tough so it takes tough situation to shock me. etc .. but I did not do it for gratitude or friendship and looked at as part of learning about normal human reactions to things.
Regarding my daughters I am almost at the point where I accept the losses as grief like a death. I cannot do more. They dont really like each other. I now focus on living my life for my son and keeping myself busy and as happy as possible.
I am ok with my own company, lived alone before, so when son is ready to go I think I will be ok.
The world has changed a great deal with computers, but the boom has slowed down. My brother, ex husband and his friends were all gung ho about making big money from them. I dont theink they are evil, but I was very angry about them for a long time. I have had to get over it and face the fact that they are here to stay. So eventually I started using them again.
I had trained a little out at Digital before marriage .. but became very 'allergic' to them. Felt obligated to provide them for children, and a bit out of my depth in managing their use of them and I resented that I had to argue about them with my son .. but .. thats life.
I can see there are also wonderful things about modern technology and I have loved haviing access to all that knowledge. Now I even have the computer on the piano when an old score has been downloaded etc.
