Loss

"If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route."
Joan Littlewood

In so many ways our lives are redirected. Events, people, circumstances, illness--all challenging our perspectives, ideas, values, and beliefs. We are stunned and feel lost.

When it's unfair, we cannot help but want an explanation -- a reason, so that we might explain to our psyche what it all means. When we understand there is no explanation, we ask, how can that be? There must be something we can do?

At this juncture, all we have is a blank page. All that's left is to overcome the grief and the loss. With our chins up and deep breaths we continue on by accepting. Perhaps it is good to consider the logic which purports that life is an illusion. Bad events aren't real. Or, maybe to just remember to talk about it and say, 'whatever gets you through the night is alright.' I remember my mother always said to me, "after a good night's rest, you will be okay, because with the rising of the sun comes a new day to begin again."

So, we just do that - we begin again and work to find a new way. As we stand up and use our voice to demand better, hopefully, we will find a peaceful route.