Once a day, post your own positive “I” statement

Thanks L2T and HappyChappy

Quote from: HappyChappy on August 18, 2018, 01:13:23 AM

Out of interest what does the robin symbolise in your Emily Dickinson poem ?

Thanks for your question HappyChappy, this allows me to go into Literary Parrot Mode ;) To me the fainting robin symbolizes a person in need of help, someone who might be losing faith or hope or who is struggling to hold on. Someone who's strength might be almost gone and who cannot go on no longer, cannot bear the burden no longer or someone who is lost and trying to find their way home or to a new home. Also someone who might have made a mistake and is being defined now by that mistake to the point of being considered a mistake. I also think of a specific bible verse, not because of religion but because it deals with faith and hope and believing in the possibility of a positive outcome:

"I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."

A fainting robin might be losing faith, Emily Dickinson also wrote explicitly about faith:
TO lose one’s faith surpasses
The loss of an estate,
Because estates can be
Replenished,—faith cannot.
Inherited with life,
Belief but once can be;
Annihilate a single clause,
And Being ’s beggary.

When I think of helping the fainting robin unto its nest again, I also think of the parable of the lost sheep because here on PSI we all go home, or no one goes home.

The 'fainting robin' is an interesting analogy because as children of disordered parents, we in many ways get thrown out of the safety of the nest long before we were actually ready to deal with the world. Often we never even really experienced safety even within the nest. Helping the fainting robin unto his nest again then means helping him/her find or create a new nest to be safe, perhaps for the first time.

Quote from: HappyChappy on August 18, 2018, 01:13:23 AM

I am proud I have never done anything I am really ashamed off (unless talking a load of rubbish counts or buying the Spice girls CD)

Well it depends if you also went to a Spice Girls concert ;) I actually liked the Spice Girls and their GIRL POWER



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