“Live Because” is in contrast to what I’ve termed “Live Despite,” which is the idea that people can live rich, full lives in spite of their physical or emotional barriers. “Over the years I have developed and employed a variety of such coping mechanisms, mostly focusing around a philosophy I call, “Live Because.”
Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.”
But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. It just sat there, taking up space in her life and making everything more difficult, mooing loudly from time to time and making cow pies, and all she could do really was edge around it and put up with it. That was exactly what Molly's arthritis was like: as if some big old cow had got into her house and wouldn't go away. Her grandmother back in Michigan used to tell about the day one of their cows got loose and wandered into the parlor, and the awful time they had getting her out. “Having a chronic illness, Molly thought, was like being invaded.
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