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那是我28岁生日,而我却极度沮丧:生活一片黑暗,未来暗淡无光。那时,我刚刚离异,成为单身母亲的我独自抚养着两个年幼的孩子。我正在当地一所大学上三年级。6岁大的儿子尼古拉斯正在上幼儿园。5个月大的女儿玛亚一直生着重病,这学期我已经被迫休学在家了。由于大部分时间都是用来陪伴两个年幼的孩子,那年冬天,我停止了与外界的一切联系。当时我刚搬到犹他州不久,还在努力适应那里冬天的严寒和风雪。可是天气偏偏和我作对,整个一月大雪纷飞,门前的雪越积越厚,越积越深,以至于每次出门都是一次与大风雪的艰苦搏斗。这一切更增添了我的与世隔绝和孤苦无依。那是怎样一个孤独、困苦而绝望的冬天!自怜自哀成为我安慰自己的惟一方法,沮丧对我来说也已经成为
It was my 28th birthday, and I was extremely frustrated: life is dark, the future bleak. At that time, I had just divorced, I was single mother raising two young children alone. I am in third grade in a local college. Nicholas, 6, is in kindergarten. Maya, a 5-month-old daughter, has been seriously ill and I have been forced to leave school this semester. Since I spent most of my time with two young children, I stopped all contact with the outside world in that winter. Shortly after I moved to Utah, I was struggling to adapt to the winter’s frost and snowstorms. However, the weather happens to be against me. Throughout the snowstorm in January, the snow in front of the lake grew thicker and thicker and deeper, so that every time I went out she was struggling with a heavy snow storm. All this adds to my isolation and loneliness. What a solitary, hard-hearted and desperate winter! Self-pity is the only way I can comfort myself, and depression has also become for me