I was writing yesterday about this wonderful book by Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club, the retelling of the conversations that Will has with his mother in the last two years of her life as she goes through her cancer treatments. He is so right when he says, “I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live in the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.” Yes that is true when you are with someone dying. But it is also true when you are dying to other things like the end of a relationship, the end of a job, the growing up and moving away of children, the different stages of my own life or the moving to a new home. There is the celebration of all the good that was, the need to be present to the day that is now, and to mourn that some things will not be the same as the future unfolds.
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Peter
11/19/2015 08:00:16 pm
Well said, Dennis. Thank you.
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LuAnn
11/23/2015 08:20:07 am
I have found that the deepest experiences in life are both tragic and beautiful. It is very difficult to understand this, until you live through it.
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