Oliver Sacks continues to inspire and present a brave and beautiful attitude toward life. Interesting contrast in this week's *The Week*, quoting from a boohooing GQ interview with Nick Nolte:
"Nick Nolte has found getting old to be a painful experience, said Davy Rothbart in *GQ.* "I cry every day," says the actor, 74. "It's nothing tragic or anything - it's just life. I cry when I try to get out of bed, because I'm in my 70s and my body hurts like hell. Once my joints are moving, I'm all right, but those are my first tears in the morning." Nolte's acute sense of mortality is reinforced every time an old friend dies. "That'll always bring on a good cry..." But Nolte says that perhaps the most painful consequence of growing old is seeing your children become involved in their own lives and slowly drift away. "My son is 28. We've had a close relationship all my life, but now that he's gotten married and had his own family, he's much more secretive. He'll say, 'That's none of your business, Dad. Leave me alone.' And that's a sad one - letting go of your children...." After reading the above I concluded that Sacks is a good example of ego integrity in Erikson's final psychosocial stage, while Nolte might be a pretty good example of the failure of it: despair. Beth Benoit Plymouth State University Plymouth NH On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O <slil...@emory.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > Sad news about Oliver Sacks; I had not known this. > > > > > http://mindhacks.com/2015/02/19/oliver-sacks-now-i-am-face-to-face-with-dying/ > > > > ……Scott > > > > > > Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. > > Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor > > Department of Psychology > > Emory University > > Atlanta, Georgia 30322 > > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=42137 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-42137-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=42138 or send a blank email to leave-42138-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
