Dear jon Kirkham:

I too admire “being able to express your own life and experiences to others” It is part of learning from one own life to benefit yourself. When “something from it can help another person”- it is a bonus, a win-win.

I read your story and very much like your ending of it with “Loving ourselves and sharing this love. Consideration. Understanding. Compassion. Opening our hearts AND our minds.”

You invited others to share, as you did. I am not inclined to do so at the moment in this format, here, but I am bumping up your thread in case it reaches more people.

Best to you!

anita