The Downside of Depression Captured

Natalia Martinez, SunSentinel editorial columnist

"My senior quote in the high school yearbook was by the 26th president of the United States, THeodore Roosevelt: 'Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.'

"I was refreshed and a bit surprised to find out that this belief, though much else had cahnged since high school, had remained true. It didn't matter that I was 21 years old or 23 or 19, for I had both roots and wings."