55. Excerpt from Anthony Stephens’ Mood Journal

June 7 2004

Morning: 6 out of 10

Afternoon: 5 out of10

Evening: 6 out of 10

Okay, after giving it some thought and talking about it some more, I understand why Dr. Silver made me write about the whole Carol Incident.

It’s been almost seven years since that weekend and everything on the surface of the incident blew over within a week, but I still remember the entire ordeal vividly.

That day with my mom, the way she judged me automatically then took it back and acted like she never did it to begin with, thinking about all of that brought on this epiphany.

It made me realize that, when it comes down to it, “family” is just a word. So is “love” and “forever.” They’re all just words.

You write them down, hand them to somebody else, they read them, implant them in their memory cells, and react accordingly until that cell either dies and the words are forgotten or they’re written down again and implanted into another cell.

Either way, they don’t last or stay the same. Because in the end that’s all anything is: a memory. An idea.

Trust, even the assumed trust between parent and child, is subjective. Just like everything else in this world.

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