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So when I begin the day dazed and headachy, then realize I've got death and other endings on the brain, what do I do? Why, I go back and re-read posts I made at the start of the Great Depression of 2003! Oh well. [Note: Actually, this is proving more helpful than expected. I read the stuff I wrote back then and remember one key fact: I survived.]

Even when I was starting to be really miserable, though, I said some smart things sometimes. From January 13, 2003:

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
--John 15:13, King James version.

A thought earlier: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man give his friends what they need even though it conflict with what he deeply desire to give.

Which probably comes to the same thing in the end.

(P.S.--subjunctive mood sounds weird. Am sure I got it wrong too.)

Okay, maybe I wasn't so smart about the subjunctive. Earlier that month, there was:

When you've got some substance, when you've got some sort of a solid core, (almost) no matter how slight, you can draw to yourself knowledge, experiences, people, and they all enrich you. With awareness, you can build on that foundation with every breath you take. You can give generously of yourself because you are able to live with abundance.

When you're not solid enough, you're like a whirlpool, drawing things to yourself in an effort to fill the void, but getting them only to lose them again, sunk to the bottom of a sea you can't fathom.

Or at least that's the way I get.

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The subjunctive is dangerously close to the simple past in Modern English. There used to be some extra conjunctions, and a tad more morphology. I blame the French, as ever, and 19th century prescriptivists. I also blame the Celts for providing an "auxilliary do/be" substrate, but that's a more general complaint. All in all, for a Germanic language, English is rather divergent.

I have very little to say on the matter of intro- and extrospective clarity and enlightenment in times of emotional stress. We seem to be a bit divergent on that one.

My clarity and englightenment don't seem to be well correlated with levels of stress. They might have some relationship with barometric pressure, though.