>If your life and self-worth is defined by just by one thing
>(children, work, school, money, athletic success), you are in
>a very fragile position.
>Any change in that one thing can bring you all the way down.
>It is easy to see with athletes once their career is over (the
>scene in Friday Night Lights with Boobie crying in the car
>talking about "What am I going to do now?")
>But it extends elsewhere. You see people go into deep
>depression after losing a job (even when there are no money
>issues) or when their children grow up and don't need them as
>much.
>

You seem to be a practical, logical dude. But you're putting practical rules on someone in an impractical situation.