-The way I think about rock bottom
now, whether it's the rock bottom of my marriage
or my individual rock bottom, is that rock
bottom is a crisis, OK? It's a crisis.
And everyone wants to avoid crisis.
But what crisis means, literally, is to sift, OK?
Like a child who goes to the beach--
Sifts through the sand, yes.
---lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away,
hoping that there's treasure left over.
Yes.
And that's what crisis does, has done for me.
It comes into my life, and I have to watch everything fall
away that I thought that I needed so I
can find out what's left over.
And what was left over the first time
and what was left over the second time
is really my faith and my hope and my love.
Those are the things that can't be taken from me, right?
And I think that's why women who have been to rock bottom--
I think that's why they're the brave ones and the kind
ones and the wise ones--
That's right.
---and the ones who can laugh at the days to come,
because they're the ones who know that the only things
you really need are also the things
that can't be taken from you.
And so fear goes.
-Down there at rock bottom? -Yeah.
Yeah.
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