I've always said I've lead a charmed life, apart from losing some of the people closest to me. My father died of a heart attack. One uncle died of cancer not long after his wife died of an aneurysm. My other uncle died of a broken heart a month after his wife died from a toothache. I was privileged to know and love them, and they were all taken too soon.
Grief is an impossible emotion; the only way to avoid it is not to love. But having known grief I would still choose love every time. Life does not make promises, it is not fair, but we can only control ourselves (and even that is not fully true) and we only have the present. I will choose to love with all of my heart, regardless of the future, regardless of the consequences.
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