Reaching Into the Cookie-jar //// Micah Powers

    Although I haven't myself yet had a child or assembled a group of my offspring, I do have 5 younger sisters. In my experience surrounding my two youngest sisters I gained practice dealing with their intense bouts of emotion. Sometimes it is useful to console them by humoring their feelings despite not being a true picture of what is actually happening. In act 4 scene 6 Edgar employs methods similar to the aforementioned. Even as adults, one can begin providing sympathy or even change others' emotions through the use of humoring of going along with someone's ideas. When someone one reaches out makes you believe you're right only to let yourself be proven wrong it allows for room for self evaluation.  

    I am reminded of the time my sister was convinced that there was still cookies in the cookie jar. I took her to the cookie jar and said "I promise you I know that it is empty. I would give you a cookie but there are none left." 

    "I don't believe you!", the 3 1/2 year old retorted. I brought her to the cookie jar only to hold her and she bawled from lack of cookies. she needed to see for herself that she was unfortunately mistaken. In the same way Gloucester felt as though he needed to end his life. I hate to say it but he was basically like, "ok old man" Gloucester needed to be told, "Yes. You tried to die but you were kept alive for a reason." because he didn't quite comprehend that in the first place he was there for a reason. 

There is another bunny trail I could go into about the mindset of suicide but that would be a much longer blog.

g'day Micah Powers

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