Off the Deep End

by Lucinda Berry

Sometimes, what doesn’t kill you simply doesn’t kill you, and you spend all your time wishing it had.

Wasn’t there some kind of limit on the number of traumatic events you could experience in a lifetime? The universe needed to back off and leave us alone.

“It’s not being strong when you don’t have any other choice. It’s not like you can say, ‘No thank you. I don’t want to do this anymore.’”