An Unfortunate and Necessary Gift
Have you ever lost someone that was important to you? Someone critical and essential to life as you knew it? What did you notice about the moment when that relationship was severed abruptly or maybe it dissolved slowly? How did it impact you? How did you recover? Did you recover? What is life like now that you've experienced that loss? What do you want life to be like now that you've experienced it? I've had loss, but I’m not sure I deliberately chose recovery as much as I chose to live through it, because life goes on or the living just keep living, right? I've become comfortable with loss to the point I expect it because it’s always lurking just around the corner. As a well behaved self-fulfilling prophesy would do, I start to create the sense of loss at times, even if it doesn't exist. The crafty self-fulfilling snarky little voice whispers “Told you! I knew it was coming, always does. See!?!” Crazy, I know. At least I then get to tell myself that I k