The moment tragedy hits, soon thereafter a piercing reality that life is a balancing act of both frailness and strength, and when tipped life seems it will never be same again.
At first, it is painful, seemingly unbearable at times, and in the same breath someone might recall a silly moment shared, and peels of laughter will pour. You see life does not stop even during times of grief. What does happen is isolated fragments of feelings and thoughts, a freeze frame of time, a depth so deep one feels raw to the core, tender to the bone and stark naked to every memory and emotion.
And therein that raw truth life's hand plants gracefully seeds of hope, courage, and forgiveness, in an insufferable soil of one's heart.
And in time healing blooms, and one remembers love without shedding a million tears.
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