At the risk of being a bit of a downer during a Celebration, I’d like to create a little room to acknowledge people who haven’t felt in a position to give as much as they had hoped / expected / planned for due to life circumstances. I’m unfortunately in that camp this year.[1] So I would like to express empathy with anyone who is in the same boat and feeling sad and/or guilty about it. If we are giving what we can (not in the capitalized sense), sometimes we aren’t in a position to give as much and have to radically accept that.
This is due to two separate family-of-origin situations that are consuming a lot of my financial and other resources to mitigate. One of them—involving a terminally-ill parent—is also why I’ve been less active on-Forum as of late.
At the risk of being a bit of a downer during a Celebration, I’d like to create a little room to acknowledge people who haven’t felt in a position to give as much as they had hoped / expected / planned for due to life circumstances. I’m unfortunately in that camp this year.[1] So I would like to express empathy with anyone who is in the same boat and feeling sad and/or guilty about it. If we are giving what we can (not in the capitalized sense), sometimes we aren’t in a position to give as much and have to radically accept that.
This is due to two separate family-of-origin situations that are consuming a lot of my financial and other resources to mitigate. One of them—involving a terminally-ill parent—is also why I’ve been less active on-Forum as of late.