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RobinA

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26. As a Person

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 12:39 PM

Dec 2015

also in community mental health, we do what we can. And no, it will never be "enough." If we bash our heads too often or too hard on this particular brick wall we will end up comatose or brain damaged and therefore no good to anyone.

I look at doing what I can do as adding my light to the sum of light. It helps me to look at it that way because it assumes there is other light out there. That quote is actually from Tolstoy, but I got it from the movie The Year of Living Dangerously where it is quoted by Billy Kwan who is attempting to aid poverty in Asia.

When taking stock, I try to look at what I have done rather than getting lost in the vast ocean of what I have not done and cannot do.

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