Joan Didion Quote
Adoption, I was to learn although not immediately, is hard to get right.As a concept, even what was then its most widely approved narrative carried bad news: if someone chose you, what does that tell you?Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be chosen?Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world?The ones who chose you?And the other who didn't?Are we beginning to see how the word abandonment might enter the picture? Might we not make efforts to avoid such abandonment? Might not such efforts be characterized as frantic? Do we want to ask ourselves what follows? Do we need to ask ourselves what words come next to mind? Isn't one of those words fear? Isn't another of those words anxiety?
Adoption, I was to learn although not immediately, is hard to get right.As a concept, even what was then its most widely approved narrative carried bad news: if someone chose you, what does that tell you?Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be chosen?Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world?The ones who chose you?And the other who didn't?Are we beginning to see how the word abandonment might enter the picture? Might we not make efforts to avoid such abandonment? Might not such efforts be characterized as frantic? Do we want to ask ourselves what follows? Do we need to ask ourselves what words come next to mind? Isn't one of those words fear? Isn't another of those words anxiety?