Entry # 8 --- Thoughts on Life and Loss

Life is breathing, feeling, doing...... A gift, a chance, the only chance we have to do something meaningful... just inhabiting the earth doesn't make us significant...it's what we do while we're in it....the people we touch, the smiles we bring, the laughs we share, the hearts we warm, the lives we make better because we were here to listen, to talk, to inspire, to teach, to learn, to understand, to feel...... fear, pain, anger, loss are the curses of humanity......but we have to learn how to deal with those things....because, above all else, they exist and if we can make it through those things, we're that much stronger, that much wiser, that much more significant..... no one ever said life was easy or fair or not scary....life IS unfair, it is hard, and it is scary.....but it's also joy and happiness......and every time u lose a piece of any of those things, they appear again.....maybe not the way you want them to appear, but they are there....you just have to make sure you keep your eyes open to those things....don't become blinded by the pain..... in time, you will find happiness again and you will feel a smile from up above and it will shine right through to your heart..... In this life, it's not what we lose that truly matters....it's how we react to those losses....how we react to anything that is thrown our way, good or bad, that's what makes us who we are. And that, my friend, is how we stand out in this world. Because everyone experiences loss in life....but not everyone reacts the same.....remember that.... maybe you don't think your life matters if you lose the things that you feel made you, you.....but remember that your life is constantly touching other lives....and as insignificant as you may feel, you might be everything to someone else....... the concept of 'you' might be clouded right now but i promise, you will be able to see you again.....you will catch glimpses of yourself from time to time....in other people, in places, in sounds, smells, touches and slowly, piece by piece, you will come together again....it just takes time..... But never deny any part of who you are because of the bad things that happen, because if you're not you, then it defeats your purpose and you owe it to this world, to God to be you, no matter how broken....