Word: helplessly
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...maternal instinct but also because there are some things men simply can't do. A veteran at the Weymouth class told the rookies that his wife originally had trouble breast-feeding. "The milk wasn't coming in," he said. "The baby's weight was dropping. You feel totally helpless." The coaches stress communicating, but they also get to the more pressing questions about sex: when it's O.K. to do it after childbirth ("Officially, six weeks, but not until she's ready") and why engorged breasts aren't meant to be played with ("They feel like someone kicked...
...rash’s unstoppable, uncontrollable, pushy presence left me with the same helpless feeling that graduation does. I can’t control the fact that my life is going to radically change. There’s nothing that will stop my roommates from scattering, and my dorm room from filling up with someone else’s stuff next year. The Yard will never quite feel like home again. I know I should just realize this and let go yet it’s hard for me to come to terms with that utter lack of agency, especially...
More than once Vaillancourt displayed her ability to dominate entire games to the point that Harvard’s opposition was rendered helpless. In a two-game road trip in which the Crimson shut out Connecticut, 2-0, before beating Providence, 4-1, Vaillancourt racked up two goals and three assists, having a hand in all but one of Harvard’s goals...
...disorienting. It's profoundly psychologically affecting. It affects your identity. It affects your feeling about who you get to be in society, because there is an enormous stigma attached to it. I don't think anyone would choose to be associated with something that many people see as helpless, hopeless, freakish. However, the flip side of that is having this illness has really forced me to become extremely responsible. It also really forces me to be very, very conscious of other people. It may have given me, not some super-special empathy, but a certain amount of empathy...
...direct means of teaching ourselves humility. We are told that volunteering might war with our ego-centrism, but many programs place the volunteer in a level of hierarchical advantage, whether it’s as a teacher for an immigrant seeking citizenship or even as a van driver for helpless children. Volunteering is very often more concerned with bringing others up than with bringing oneself down to earth...