Most people have their favourite Eleanor Roosevelt quotation. While I love the one above- I also   love the one below for the way she describes finding the unthinkable in her marriage; an affair.

’13 years after her marriage, and after bearing six children, Eleanor resumed the search for her identity. The voyage began with a shock: the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer. “The bottom dropped out of my own particular world,” she later said. “I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.” There was talk of divorce, but when Franklin promised never to see Lucy again, the marriage continued. For Eleanor a new path had opened, a possibility of standing apart from Franklin. No longer would she define herself solely in terms of his wants and needs. A new relationship was forged, on terms wholly different from the old.’

There is that moment for many of us where the bottom falls out of our particular world for this reason or another. Your life cannot be returned to, your marriage neither and you are forever changed by the moment.

In time you replace that bottom, that false bottom, if you will, with a new, stronger one. You look back and try to picture the you that you were in that old world.

And for the life of you, you cannot.

 Uncle Teddy had some  excellent quotables as well- click here for a favourite of mine