People are like tea bags

People are like tea bags Put them in hot water, and they are stronger? except for those who do not? t. In a recent trip to a foreign country, my husband and I unexpectedly met a couple visiting the same Sightseer? S monument that we have been. After talking for a while 'time, one of these magnificent and unexpected light bulbs and then realize that we are close friends with two of us. So, naturally, we decided to meet with you more than I had expected, and soon we were at dinner and talk as if we have to know everything possible about each other. We have all the time lost friends because he knew that we probably will not see again. We talked about secrets? the way it is with the hairdresser or the person next to you on an airplane. Instant intimacy with the certainty that there is no real intimacy or connection ever developed. They were a lively pair, happily married for over thirty years ago, developers of a prosperous economy, and that the parents of three wonderful adult children. Eileen was? Bad? Sister, who was always in trouble, the children whose parents do not amount to anything positive. He had dropped out of high school and their parents, they get a job and not even bother to complete their basic training. Barbara, his? Good? Sister had breezed through school with good grades and a fine reputation. She has always been proud of their parents. Barbara and her husband were our closest friends. Even if we thought we knew very well, we had never heard of Eileen and her family. We thought it strange that we did not know existed. Rightly, Eileen and her husband were very proud of their results. They were thrilled about the fact that deception in the world and that they form a cosmic joke to all those who predicted their failure. According to their adventure, which had achieved the success that everyone has said it would never. As the wine flowed, and we continue to talk, Eileen talking openly his family and especially on their sister. Barbara said, seemed always blue and she was always in some kind of psychotherapy and / or medications for their mood depression. Eileen was proud of the fact that they have never used drugs or psychotherapy to lift their spirits. In fact, it was very clear that they could? T understand that one has. I listened carefully to Eileen? S-version of life, knowing that if only one has the power of positive thinking, and decides to go after what he or she wants to achieve its objective. E 'was her understanding that there is no reason that anyone ever? Apart. He lived in a world? Wonder Woman? Illusions, a world in which all persons who had symbolic bracelets of gold, stop speeding bullets, and ensure that no emotional harm. I have heard many people talk about Eileen, without understanding that for some people getting up in the moing is an act of great courage and who sometimes need all the help you can get through the day. For a number of reasons, many of which are known, and only so much that we do not? T, some people are like tea bags in hot water and grow stronger. Others, wo, including tea bags, wear and tear, spills messily launched their contents into boiling water. After years as a psychologist, as someone who has? Have you all seen? I know less about what makes the difference between those who make life easy and who does not? T, that I've ever done. As far as I know, but for those who through life with a minimum of sunbu, I'm glad. And for those who need help, I stretch my hand. Life is too difficult to do alone, Dr. D. Lynn Dorree, Ph.D. Dorree Dr. Lynn is a co-founder of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and a practicing physician in New York and Washington, DC. Dr. Lynn served on the Board of the American Academy of Psychotherapists and she is in the drafting of the publication of the votes. It 'also a regular columnist for the Washington, DC newspaper, The Georgetown. Dr. Lynn is a popular and well known speaker on the lecture circuit.