tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post7542881717041779432..comments2023-05-19T01:13:38.607-08:00Comments on Mindful Serenity: Innocense...Lost (repost)Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279308378287322473noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-20575604924014763962010-02-11T08:58:17.819-09:002010-02-11T08:58:17.819-09:00I wonder if I was ever innocent. I can remember...I wonder if I was ever innocent. I can remember things that damaged it back to early elementary school, and it got a big-time kick in the pants when my adult daughter spent a couple comatose months in the ticu last year. So I have my share of wrinkles, inside and out. But I also have hard-earned self reliance, a great faith in tomorrow, and the knowledge that life is good.gpchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054854655973836794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-18178297229691814682010-02-04T23:35:33.969-09:002010-02-04T23:35:33.969-09:00When I was 22 and my father killed my BIL. Both of...When I was 22 and my father killed my BIL. Both of my parents were arrested. It happened in my apartment and I saw it happen. THAT was my loss of innocence. I haven't been the same since then either.Janeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085755609836623027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-38801419286284585802010-02-04T16:48:08.843-09:002010-02-04T16:48:08.843-09:00I lost my innocence at 24 when one of my 2 best co...I lost my innocence at 24 when one of my 2 best college friends died in a car accident.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052229323481014406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-39794607491487552522010-02-04T10:08:51.196-09:002010-02-04T10:08:51.196-09:00Without a doubt it's been infertility. Not ev...Without a doubt it's been infertility. Not even motherhood has changed me as profoundly as infertility has. Even now that I've had children for almost 8 years (the same amount of time that I was childless and "trying"), infertility really defines who I am. Still. I remember going through a time where I hated who I had become and longed to return to the relatively carefree woman I was before. Luckly that phase didn't last too long, and now I can see all the growth and the new insights that I have on life and motherhood because of infertility. But there are still times when I don't know how to quite get past the "jadedness" (thanks for that term, Jenne!) that it has brought to me. I know that quality infuses alot of what I'm about these days. "Innocence Lost" is a perfect way to describe it!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14309279105003884685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-33603027378008852302010-02-04T08:50:14.159-09:002010-02-04T08:50:14.159-09:00I don't know that I've had a pivotal momen...I don't know that I've had a pivotal moment that has aged me. In my adult years, getting a child like my oldest who was just 100x harder to parent than my youthful mind pictured parenting to be may be my moment though. I went through 3 years of hell with him. Then, 3 years of heart-breaking infertility before getting G.<br />But my Jr year of highschool, I lost 3 friends in tragic accidents. That was definitely the end of innocence for my childhood.RasJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14454319137509784348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-91056860462789590402010-02-04T06:47:48.592-09:002010-02-04T06:47:48.592-09:00Edit my previous post.
There was another time in...Edit my previous post. <br /><br />There was another time in my life where I did exactly what you described your mother doing after her baby died of SIDS. <br /><br />It was when I was 14, and I moved out of my parents house to escape my father whose bipolar disorder was out of control. I saw a picture of myself from that time a few years later, and I look haunted and much older than my years. I had seen a level of suffering in life that had changed me in some fundamental way.Jennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693855868835555292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5551466722529127235.post-459504561394050562010-02-04T06:44:54.473-09:002010-02-04T06:44:54.473-09:00I'll have to think back in a few years, but I&...I'll have to think back in a few years, but I'd say my experiencing PTSD after giving birth was a turning point for me. In a sense my eyes were opened to just the sort of societal pressure that mothers face. I wonder if it has made me jaded. I'm sure some think I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist.Jennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693855868835555292noreply@blogger.com