“Closure” is a funny word. People ask me all the time, “Isn’t having the Foundation and this blog making closure more difficult?”
It’s a fair question, but is there really any closure? Will there be a “tipping point” moment at which everything that has happened will miraculously just “close”? Like the end of a chapter, or a closing on the financing of your new house?
I don’t think it will, and I am not sure I would want closure. In fact, I am drawn to believe the opposite, especially with this site. We are not trying to create closure but actually the exact opposite: We are trying to creating openings. We don’t want David’s story to have an end—we want it to be the beginning of something new. An environment where we feel more comfortable talking freely about depression and removing some of the taboo around the fact that, as humans, we are predisposed to our feelings and that the highest highs are equally as dangerous as the lowest lows.
We want to create openings where people who are feeling down or defeated have a myriad of options to seek help and not have to do so in the shadows, in the whispers and hushed tones, lest we be judged by those we consider of influence around us as to think we have some sort of weakness.
There may be times when closure is an appropriate thing to have, but in this particular case, I am not prepared to accept closure. I am more inclined to create openings and to go from there.
