semi-daily journal of my thoughts and feelings(hopefully) On my life living in the Rocky Mountains...
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| rkymtnmusings semi-daily journal of my thoughts and feelings(hopefully) On my life living in the Rocky Mountains... .
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12/28/2003 Okay.. so I am apparently back in the saddle, for whatever That is worth... I took my soon-to-be 19 year-old daughter to the family doc's Friday. I didn't find out until the last moment that she was going for an exam to see-amoung other things- whether or not she was pregnant...so I looked at the pictures of a two-month-old copy of People magazine whilst I commiserated about how to "respond" to "our" predicament...i.e. the possibility of her being pregnant. It took me about half a second to reach that rock solid, no-doubt-about-it, gut knowledge that, no matter how mad she makes me sometimes, no matter that I sometimes see her as shallow, selfish, and immature...the bottom line was this: That I would be there for her, loving and supportive of her and the choices she would have to make..with some reservation give my opinion or suggestions...let her know that I stood with her to face this life-changing event. And...she initially tested negative... missing her period for two months may be related to a thyroid condition. I did let Katie know that i felt that just having the thought of a pregnancy, especially if you are "estranged" from the potential father (oh, yes I insisted on this !!!)was a huge weight-one that no one should have to carry themself... I just realized that my love for my children...and consequentially thier happiness and safety is paramount to all else... I guess what promoted this train of thought was pondering the old Arabian custom of shame-based killings...that more often than not, if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant that she faces death, the "logic " being that she must have done something provocative to cause the man to lose control and rape the woman-and so therefore has shamed the family, and must pay with her life... It's just scary that there could be such a huge void in human thinking... ....more...later... posted by David | 12/28/2003 03:50:00 PM |
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