Dear Swanky:

“Well by better things, I mean by drowning myself in work so I don’t have to ponder over my loss“- I was thinking only yesterday, in general, about the loss of hopes and dreams: how these are not losses of things that really happened, but losses of the excited, alive-feeling that they may be happening very soon. Hopes and desires can be so strong, filling us with such intense excited optimism, that losing that feeling is a big loss, leaving us sad, maybe depressed. Is that how you feel?

anita