Monday, December 17, 2007

Elizabeth Jolley: Blind to the Future

Sometimes our despondency and depression clouds our vision and prevents us from thinking realistically and creatively about the future.

Author, Elizabeth Jolley confesses her blindness when describing the prevalent blindness:

“Every day I am seeing people living from day to day, from one precarious day to the next, from one despairing week to the next, without any vision of any kind of future. I understand that I, at various times in my own life, have been unable to see anything beyond the immediate.”

Elizabeth Jolley in The Georges' Wife.

Image: “people living from day to day, from one precarious day to the next, from one despairing week to the next…”