To Live In The Truth

I learnt an important lesson at the end of my mother’s life. While she was reaching out, others were afraid. They avoided her because they were scared to face and deal with their own pain. We avoid grief. We take wide berths around our potential grief hazard. Our society thrives on selling happiness and painless existence. But the reality is that grief is pain. Love and all it holds can be just as painful as it is wonderful. There can be no better gift than to meet someone in their humanness; to wrap them in all the love you have and show them, through your own tears and sorrow, how much they mean to you. Don’t avoid that gift because you’re too wrapped up in your own pain. Rather meet then where they’re at and show them how deep their existence is in yours.