Loss

When the heart is full and the days are long, it is hard to imagine anything else. And yet, as night follows day and winter follows summer, so too will heartache and shadows come your way. There is nothing that can prepare you for emotional pain. Still, it helps to remember that so many others have emerged from the tunnel and found the light and warmth of love again. When we are young, we fear loss, but with time that the anxiety diminishes. We learn, through painful experience, that we can love and lose and still go on to find happiness and love again. We learn that although the pain of loss may never go away, it is a pain that we can live with.

— Wayne Visser

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