But sometimes the music or what he was reading would all of a sudden cease to act on him or, worse, he would fallintodespair or irritation, no longer able to see the bright horizon promised to him by music, by reading, by the art of imagination and the excitement of a sensitive heart.
But human beings fall easily intodespair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
She said the changes proposed by her bill would help inform individuals of the full range of agencies able to support them "instead of allowing them to fallinto the hands of some of the fee-charging companies who propel them into further debt and despair".