SECTION SIX: LIFE STYLE

 
THE SERIOUS SIDE OF LIFE 
By Kevin Ross

	"The Serious Side of Life." Certainly an intriguing 
title to a column. I'm sure we all wonder at times if there 
is anything except a serious side of life. I really don't 
remember when life had a frivolous side. I guess it did when 
I was a kid, a college student; a young man who had not yet
tasted the bitterness that comes with the serious side of 
life. 

I thought of this recently when I happened upon an old 
interview on television. I believe it was filmed sometime 
in the early 1990's. It had me riveted to the screen.

	Mike Wallace, one of the most respected and watched 
men in America, was being interviewed about a time in his 
life when he was in a deep depression. He called it a 
"clinical depression," but we all know the feeling -- 
clinical or not. Now, here was the anchor of 60 Minutes: 
The man we saw front and center on our evening news every 
weekday night and the man who broadcast from the battlefields 
of Vietnam, telling us -- and all the world -- that he was 
so depressed that he couldn't eat, sleep and had hid under
his covers for a portion of his adult years. 

	Why would he do this? What was he so afraid of that 
he couldn't face the world? It couldn't have been money. His 
salary at CBS was somewhere in the seven-digit range for sure. 
It couldn't have been a lack of respect. Millions of viewers 
tuned into hear his words every single night. What could it 
have been? More importantly, why do so many men in the middle 
of their lives feel their hearts and their souls sink to the 
point that life seems to have no meaning? The answers to this 
are all over the map. 

	Mike Wallace turned to pharmaceuticals to get him out 
from under the covers and back to a productive life. He said, 
"Sure, they have side effects. My sex drive isn't what it used
to be, but it's a price I would pay in a heartbeat."   It sure 
ain't easy being a man in the middle.

What are the answers? Well, there are those pharmaceuticals 
that Mike Wallace talked about, but they do have a huge 
trade-off to consider. There's psychotherapy as an option.
Lying on a shrink's couch and telling him how scared you are.
Telling him how frightened you are of dying. Hoping against
hope that he has the answers to get you back to life, back to 
your family, back to your job and out from under the covers. 
I guess that works for some. I don't know. 

But I have an answer to this dreaded malady of fear and 
depression. It is an easy answer, perhaps too easy. It seems 
to work for me. I take each moment as it comes. What happened 
to me yesterday is history. Tomorrow? Well that's still a dream. 
All I have is NOW. I choose to be as positive and as good a 
person as I can possibly be right NOW. What more can I do?
Sure, life will throw me some curves. My sister was diagnosed
recently with cancer. My marriage of a quarter century has 
come to an end. All curves in the road of life. I must be 
able to look myself in the mirror and know that I'm "trying" 
to do the right and good thing every moment that I'm on this 
good green Earth. How else could I possibly go on? How could 
I face you? How could I face myself?

The alternative is to hide under my covers.  


 
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NOVEMBER 1999
   
BOOMER OF THE MONTH   


- Barbara Pfrommer.



I'm a 52 year old brown eyed        Italian/German-American,  with Blonde Hair (Born with Blonde hair up until 13-years old), and live in Branford, CT 

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