What is it about past events and ill interpreted events in our lives that stay with us and mess with us for so long? Why is it that it is so hard to set it aside and move on? This obsession strikes me as such a huge impediment in
just getting on with our lives.
Mom just turned 97 - an incredible achievement to anyone younger. She, like
many of us who will not accede to the possibility, is haunted by life's failures,
things not realized in time to effect a positive change, and also by things that
are missed and thus missing that opportunity we all regret
not entering into.
How does one assist the other in finding some meaning in these things? And also how does one find ways of helping to let these things go? We seem impossibly bound to past events that can not be changed that we still feel
unresolved aches and angst about. I want to know how we assist those, bound in this stuff, to release the hold and move on. To one of very advanced years,
the question arises, what do I need to move on to..... It is a tough place.
And it is something we all are in many similar yet different ways part of.
So we listen, try to find humor, and often amazingly find grace and harmony
in just being and loving. This is not easy, but there are so often, isolated
moments that give us all a hope and quiet peace that is sacred and worth
the waiting and a step worthy pace on our mutual walk - forward.
R
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