Perspective

[erikred]

From a New Yorker article on Golden Gate Bridge jumpers:

'As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”'

(Found thanks to a Fresh Air interview with Nick Hornby about his recent novel, A Long Way Down:

"He said that he realized very quickly after jumping that there was only one thing wrong with his life and that was that he'd just jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.")

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Re: "everyone knows someone"

[erikred.livejournal.com]

I was going to try to tell you so, Maneater, but you'd already erased your comment. :(

Go slowly on those icons before they go to your head!