{"id":581,"date":"2008-12-31T02:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T02:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-12-31T02:25:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T02:25:38","slug":"karen-answers-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Max"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment by Max on December 29, 2008 5:19 pm<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi, Karen..<\/p>\n

I have to say, your story is one of the most powerful, if not THE single most powerful I have ever read in my life. To think what you had to go through makes all my trials in life seem trivial. I\u2019m so amazed and inspired by your ability to pull through and come out as a content, wholly-functioning person after years and years of hell on earth. Your tale is certainly one filled with tragedies, but it makes it all the more powerful to find how you survived it all and turned your life into something pleasant at last.. and I admire that greatly. I really do.. having suffered clinical depression and anxiety disorder stemming from but a few instances of people who treated me badly, I cannot imagine how hard that had to be.<\/p>\n

I just had a little question, and it might seem silly, but I am curious and I haven\u2019t seen it asked here yet: Did Jensen like Shel Silverstein\u2019s book Where The Sidewalk Ends? Because he seems to have redrawn some illustrations out of that book right from memory, like the head-on-top-of-the-head and the bandaged Miles. I\u2019m wondering if it was an inspiration for you as a whole, or more specifically just for that alter, and what other roles it might\u2019ve played. I\u2019m just curious because it was one of my favourite books as a kid, and that\u2019s how I recognised some of the characters.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so interesting, because the poems in the book and the drawings re-created that originally went with those poems are completely different; I\u2019m fascinated with how other works of art might \u201chit\u201d someone when they first see it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear Max,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your compliments! I’m sorry to hear you suffered from depression and anxiety. \u00a0I know how being treated badly can cause emotional illness. \u00a0As I continue my journey to wellness, each day brings something new for me to learn about myself. \u00a0I continue to have a bad day now and then, but when I do, I try to remember where I came from, remember my old inner pain, and seek a few moments of gladness to get me through.<\/p>\n

Your question about Jensen is definitely not a silly one! \u00a0It’s a question I continue to ask myself. \u00a0My ex-alter, Jensen, was an eleven year old boy who loved to draw, paint, and create a world of color for me. \u00a0I wish I knew where his inspiration came from. \u00a0I understand that children copy drawings from books; I just never knew whether Jensen did this. \u00a0I’ve always felt uncomfortable sharing any art by Jensen because I didn’t feel I could claim it as my own.<\/p>\n

I don’t recall the book you are referring to, but I will definitely check it out. \u00a0I believe Jensen may have been inspired by many children’s books. \u00a0I’m always interested in finding out where my mind came up with everything.<\/p>\n

There are many things my alters have done that amazed me and left me wondering where their thoughts and ideas, including the way they chose to survive, came from. \u00a0I guess that is one of the great mysteries of multiplicity. \u00a0Anything’s possible. \u00a0For me, what’s most important is that through Jensen’s creative ways, I grew to enjoy and express myself through art.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your insight, it may very well help me come to a better understanding of my ex-alter, Jensen.<\/p>\n

Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment by Max on December 29, 2008 5:19 pm Hi, Karen.. I have to say, your story is one of the most powerful, if not THE single most powerful I have ever read in my life. To think what you had to go through makes all my trials in life seem trivial. I\u2019m so amazed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}