You Are Not Alone
By Judith Cullen
© 2014
I went to a gathering of folks from my High School
recently. It was not a formal reunion,
but simply an informal gathering at a local brewery-eatery. There were people from several classes there,
spanning the years around 1980. I had
expected some of the “old scripts” of behavior to kick in, as so often they do
in such situations. That was not the
case. Perhaps the reality of all of us
being over 50 has given us a wholly different perspective. We have lived a lot in over thirty years –
each and every one of us.
Early on, a lovely woman from the year after mine obliquely
referred to her struggles with depression.
It was probably the only moment in the evening that I faltered, and felt
that same old awkwardness that I felt so often in High School. I remember this woman as a bright,
self-assured young lady. Depression was the last thing I would have expected to
creep into her life.
