Wow! It's been a long time since I've been on here. So much has happened, so much has changed. Some for the better, some very hurtful and can't be explained. Some love lost was unexpected, some lives lost were unexpected. All is painful in their own way, but I have to continue to believe that everything happens for a reason. We may not always know that reason, but more often than not, further in our lives, we reflect back and say "I get it now".
Maybe we were only meant to touch a life temporarily, maybe someone was meant to help mold us into who we are today, but they weren't meant to be there forever. Maybe at the time, we were needed in someone's life, or they were needed in ours. Whatever the reason, life must go on. The difficult part is dealing with the questions of why? A question to which we may never know the answer.
So it all comes down to finding peace within ourselves. Coming to terms with the fact that we can not always change the fate of others, sometimes we can't even change our own fate. It makes me think of the Disney movie Brave. If you had a chance to change your fate, would you?
What a tough question? All we can do is live our lives, making the best decisions we can for our physical and mental well being, for ourselves and our family. Learning from our mistakes, and moving forward. We can only be a good friend to those who are good to us. We can only help those who want to be helped. And we can only support those who want to be supported. We love best when we are loved back.
Love, friendships, relationships...they come and go in ways we don't always understand. We can only count our blessings that at least we were touched in some way because that person crossed our path. We can only feel blessed by what they provided to us and brought to our lives. We can only hope that they felt our love and friendship was just as important.
Life goes on. It must. We can not spend our time wondering about the what if's, why not's, or how come's. We can only focus on the "What now?"
UNBELIEVABLE! BEST thing you've ever written. Brought tears to my eyes. Maybe because I KNOW what can't be explained, so I understand the pain and feelings your talking about. But maybe just because it was heartfelt.
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