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30 Year Old BiPolar Daughter Going Downhill (again)
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<blockquote data-quote="Kalahou" data-source="post: 712774" data-attributes="member: 19617"><p>Not only set yourself free, but also "set <strong><u>her</u></strong> free" and give her wings to be the person she will be. Another member [USER=17461]@Scent of Cedar *[/USER] posted this story one time, relating this poignant image:</p><p></p><p><em>We need to push them from the nest. Believe they can fly, and push them from the nest. They will flounder. Then they will fly.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The kids are scared, too. Like the fledglings are when they leave the nest. But here is the thing. If the mother bird did not push her fledgling to fly, the fledgling's body would grow so heavy, but the muscles in his wings would not have developed. Soon, he will be a flightless bird through no one's fault, really. </em></p><p></p><p><em>But he will be a worthless thing to himself, nonetheless. Birds are meant to fly. How can they respect themselves when the other fledglings fly with strength and grace and beauty and their wings are tiny, useless things?</em></p><p></p><p><em>That is why they come almost to hate us, in their anger and their shame at their tiny, useless wings.</em></p><p>----------------</p><p> YES, you are so right. As I stayed with the folks here, and as I acted on the wisdom and guidance and support from this site, I learned much, and have little by little preserved my life. Thank you, Denise, for the reminder, and thankfulness for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kalahou, post: 712774, member: 19617"] Not only set yourself free, but also "set [B][U]her[/U][/B] free" and give her wings to be the person she will be. Another member [USER=17461]@Scent of Cedar *[/USER] posted this story one time, relating this poignant image: [I]We need to push them from the nest. Believe they can fly, and push them from the nest. They will flounder. Then they will fly. The kids are scared, too. Like the fledglings are when they leave the nest. But here is the thing. If the mother bird did not push her fledgling to fly, the fledgling's body would grow so heavy, but the muscles in his wings would not have developed. Soon, he will be a flightless bird through no one's fault, really. [/I] [I]But he will be a worthless thing to himself, nonetheless. Birds are meant to fly. How can they respect themselves when the other fledglings fly with strength and grace and beauty and their wings are tiny, useless things?[/I] [I]That is why they come almost to hate us, in their anger and their shame at their tiny, useless wings.[/I] ---------------- YES, you are so right. As I stayed with the folks here, and as I acted on the wisdom and guidance and support from this site, I learned much, and have little by little preserved my life. Thank you, Denise, for the reminder, and thankfulness for that. [/QUOTE]
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