Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bearone more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the endof the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails, which changed nothing in time exceptthe way my mother was lost in it for a whileas if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve. And then, with her eyes closed, my mother saidthe one or two words the living have for gratefulness, which is a kind of forgetting, with a senseof what it means to be alive long enoughto love someone. Thank you, she said. As for me, I didn’t care how her voice suddenly seemed lowand kind, or what failures and triumphsof the body and spirit brought her to that point–just that it sounded like hope, stupid hope. . Jason Shinder
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Failure, loss, and misfortune are inevitable. No matter what you do, you will experience these things at one point or another in your life. The most important thing to remember is that it is how you handle these experiences that defines who you are as a person. In this poem by Anne Sexton, she is talking about the importance of loving yourself even when you fail.

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