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.

“You’re not equipped to go from nothing bad ever happening to you to the worst thing that could possibly occur happening to you. It’s like being hurled into the deep end of a pool when you don’t know how to swim. That’s what it feels like. And all of it is dark. As if every light in the universe has been turned off.”

“When you’re at rock bottom, there’s really no other place to go but up,”