Hallie, this line: "Sometimes I wonder if the universe has portioned out everything good in my life against what my sister didn’t get, so that the karmic sum of us adds up to zero." So voices a feeling I've had for years, or maybe decades? About my own relationship with my only sister that it stopped me in my tracks this morning. It feels so petty and selfish and just crazy to feel a burden of success because in a cosmic way it balances someone else's struggle. But I do, it is real and I never know what to do with that shadow. So thank you for sharing, I needed to know there was a way to put words to this.
You will probably never know how many people will be comforted and better off for your sharing of this story, and your other stories. Thanks for brightening our lives and making us feel that we are not alone. Your writing makes the world a better place. Love you ❤️
Hallie, this line: "Sometimes I wonder if the universe has portioned out everything good in my life against what my sister didn’t get, so that the karmic sum of us adds up to zero." So voices a feeling I've had for years, or maybe decades? About my own relationship with my only sister that it stopped me in my tracks this morning. It feels so petty and selfish and just crazy to feel a burden of success because in a cosmic way it balances someone else's struggle. But I do, it is real and I never know what to do with that shadow. So thank you for sharing, I needed to know there was a way to put words to this.
You will probably never know how many people will be comforted and better off for your sharing of this story, and your other stories. Thanks for brightening our lives and making us feel that we are not alone. Your writing makes the world a better place. Love you ❤️
This is so funny and moving and brilliant thank you for sharing Hallie <3
Please keep sharing. Thank you for sister stories. Thank you for the fish taco smell memory.