Thanks, pushing on! - Roger in Kennewick, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Clark" <xbeecla...@gmail.com> To: "Roger & Terese Pratt" <r.c.pr...@frontier.com>, "tmic-list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:19:30 PM Subject: RE: [TMIC] Definition
Roger, It all depends on your perspective... how you view yourself - whether as 'disabled' or an 'invalid'. Per your quote by Nietzsche, an invalid is 'to vegetate... after the meaning of life... has been lost'. Have you given up on life? To be disabled and, temporarily at times, pine for what has been lost, is perfectly normal. Even non-disabled folks do it when life hits a snag. But that IS life. It's full of snags and it allows you to indulge yourself for a moment, but then demands you push on. If we didn't, our society, our very essence, would have ended long ago. Betty (in Northern California) -----Original Message----- From: Roger & Terese Pratt [mailto:r.c.pr...@frontier.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:15 PM To: tmic-list Subject: [TMIC] Definition This is how I feel some times as an invalid (or is that invalid as in not valid). I know it is wrong, but if Nietzshe said it, it must have been thought many times before. Just having a bad day, I'll be more up tomorrow. "The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society." -Friedrich Nietzsche - Roger in Kennewick, WA
