Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2008

We Learn to Cope when We're Ten


Manny and his friends Joey Appio and Marck Evangelista were in my car.

I asked Marck how his mother was because I knew she had pneumonia.

He said, "she's good."

I said, "but Marck, doesn't she have pneumonia?"

He had no answer and was a little spaced out.

Then I asked, rhetorically, "so if your mother had her leg chopped off, would you say she was 'good'"?

Joey chimed in from the back, "we learn to get past that."