The Trauma of Being Alive

By MARK EPSTEIN

Published: August 3, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/opinion/sunday/the-trauma-of-being-alive.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

Just came accross this, took a few minutes to read it (as I am having a very hard time concentrating on writing my proposal and anything and everything to keep me otherwise busy suddenly comes up…) and found it too good to be just a coincidence  So here it is, a few easy to understand words on ‘trauma’…

And I love the picture because it seems very indicative of the woman carrying her pervious trauma, minimizing it and then acknowledging it again when the new, big and fresh trauma refuses to go away…