I e-mailed the tech department about something in the middle of the week. Does anyone know why I haven't heard back yet? It's rather necessary if I'm going to do the psychological evaluations...
I'm sorry I wasn't around last night. You left your cufflinks at my house last weekend. Let me know when I can bring them by.
....If you need someone to talk to or anything at all...
So this is what helpless and useless feels like.
There's nothing I can do. There is absolutely nothing I can do. I'm not accustomed to that at all. I don't even have the capacity to reach out and comfort him, because whether we want to admit it or not, people in his position and mine have to face that this will happen someday. It is inevitable. I have sympathy, and my heart is broken I'm concerned, but it's so difficult to communicate that. It's going to happen to me someday, too. The plans for one's life seem so simple... We can seem, believe ourselves to be independent until reality sets in and shows us how ultimately powerless we are.
Can I do this? Will he let me do this?
Can I stop thinking about myself for once in my life? Every time I think about him, I think about what he's going through and my brain shuts down. I shouldn't have trouble accepting reality. I'm defaulting back to a comfortable and secure situation and state of mind.
It is unreasonable to want to be someone else's strength. He is strong enough to handle this on his own, but he shouldn't have to, and I won't let him be alone.
((ooc: All strikes deleted.))