Tha\t is a childlike way of considering the options. I can remember when I was a child and I thought that those were the options so why worry? Either everything was going to be OK or I would be dead and no longer bothered.
Later, I realised that there was a huge grey area between those two options requiring learning unpleasant things like how to do up buttons without a thumb or a hand. How to get about without a leg. How painful life might be or how much of my time would be spent travellling to hospital to visit the kidney machine. Or how painful it might be to die from radiation.
This is an example of psychodrama: framing one's place in the world as though one were the actor in dramatic events. Clearly has no idea of what life would be like in either alternative. It just sounds cool to say it this way. Indeed, the way a child would think.
Tha\t is a childlike way of considering the options. I can remember when I was a child and I thought that those were the options so why worry? Either everything was going to be OK or I would be dead and no longer bothered.
Later, I realised that there was a huge grey area between those two options requiring learning unpleasant things like how to do up buttons without a thumb or a hand. How to get about without a leg. How painful life might be or how much of my time would be spent travellling to hospital to visit the kidney machine. Or how painful it might be to die from radiation.
This is an example of psychodrama: framing one's place in the world as though one were the actor in dramatic events. Clearly has no idea of what life would be like in either alternative. It just sounds cool to say it this way. Indeed, the way a child would think.