From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
26 January
Lincoln
suffered for a lifetime from chronic clinical depression, yet his achievements,
in the midst of the Civil War, as the nation dissolved like a snowball in
spring, in the face of vast and furious events, were nothing short of
breathtaking. There is profound hope here for you and me, especially if we also
are lucky enough to be clinically depressed!
[Hint: his
drug of choice was humor. As for Lincoln, it’s not a bad choice for you and me
either. As for Lincoln we can’t OD on it; as for Lincoln, if we but look assiduously
for it we’re sure to find it. Let me say that again: the more you and I look
for it the more we’ll find that all of life is bulging with it! As a friend of
Lincoln once said, Lincoln found humor “in a pig rooting at the mill door, a
man spading his garden, a duck learning her brood to swim.”
Like I say,
bulging with it.]
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