Hello Christina, greetings!
Read your recent entry with interest and admiration.I felt for you, shared your natural feeling of anticipatory excitement, enthusiasm, and the 'offering' of something so personal and hard wrought for scrutiny by professionaly critical people (as you say an ed's job)and the returned heavily pencilled response somehow reminds me of the vulnerability a child experiences showing and offering up a proud creation to an adult. It is SO precious, the bigger, more personal the offering, the more open to huge feelings of rejection of something of oneself. Hopefully we all still manage to keep that creative child in ourselves, but as you also say powerfully in your post, coping strategies for survival are required, to protect against the rebuffs. I love your mark 2 plan and am sure it will succeed.
I started to post this (too long) comment because of your 'race' analogy. It so reminded me of what I used to say to brave patients facing six months of chemo for breast cancer.....This is not a sprint. You will need stamina.There will be ups and downs. Pace and listen to yourself and your body and where you are at. Take breathers.You will get through.
Good luck
Chris,
retired doc UK
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Ms. Bruni writes from the heart, something that is all too rare in today's literary universe. Her willingness to share her return to sanity is an inspiration to me. I can relate to her philosophy of life being an uphill battle at times but that keeping the summit in sight helps us ascend.
Sincerely, Don Fraser