[July 2005 journal entry]
I have been thinking recently about creating a spectrum re the timing of severe experiences that expose one’s views/ideas to be nothing more than ‘a house of cards’. The spectrum would move from teenage years (e.g., Eli Wiesel’s Holocaust experience) to young adult years (e.g., my experience with my first wife as multiple sclerosis destroyed her) to mature adult years (e.g., Victor Frankl’s Holocaust experience) to late adult years (e.g., C. S. Lewis’ experience with his wife’s death due to cancer). The point of the spectrum has to do with distinguishing the significance of timing re responses to traumatic experiences that occur in one’s life.