Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

"Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too.  There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin.  I am committed to Uneasy Street."   Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree)

I just joined Live Journal and I don't understand it at all. Can't seem to find anything to explain how this all works. Not sure where these journal entries are going.

Question: Why do we give all these medicines to the terminally ill?
Answer: It makes the caretaker feel like they're doing something.  See we got this medicine that clears up phlegm and this medicine for breathlessness and this medicine for anxiety and this one for pain and so on and it really seems like I'm doing something here. Maybe it even makes him feel like I'm doing something. I know when I feel really bad I like someone to come in and take charge, bustling around doing something or other. It makes me feel like someone cares, so who knows, maybe it does help him feel a little better.  But mostly I think it helps me.