There is a sense of emptiness when you have lost something dear or precious to you. Two days ago, I had carelessly dropped my PDA outside my house. Within 10 minutes of driving to work, I realised it and went about to comb the area. You're right, it's gone! All the data that I have painstakingly stored and the GPS disappeared in the wink of a eye! I suffered grief! The pix depicts the emptiness associated with loss. But, when I reflected more deeply, I felt that it cannot be compared to the painful loss of lives due to the disasters in China, Myanmar and more recently, in the Philippines. Have you lost something lately? How are you coping with it? What does it take to empathise with someone who had lost a dear one? The telephone rings !!! Oh dear, a call from my sister-in-law who had lost her mother due to a long term illness.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
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There is a sense of emptiness when you have lost something dear or precious to you. Two days ago, I had carelessly dropped my PDA outside my house. Within 10 minutes of driving to work, I realised it and went about to comb the area. You're right, it's gone! All the data that I have painstakingly stored and the GPS disappeared in the wink of a eye! I suffered grief! The pix depicts the emptiness associated with loss. But, when I reflected more deeply, I felt that it cannot be compared to the painful loss of lives due to the disasters in China, Myanmar and more recently, in the Philippines. Have you lost something lately? How are you coping with it? What does it take to empathise with someone who had lost a dear one? The telephone rings !!! Oh dear, a call from my sister-in-law who had lost her mother due to a long term illness.
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Sorry to hear about the loss. Does it mean that our country is no longer a safe place to live in? Even just within the "safe" boundaries of our neighbourhood? Well, as the saying goes, "finders keepers, losers weepers"...
What we go thru with loss:
First the panic, then the frantic search and then the anger, the fear.
But the part that really hits the insides is when the realization sinks in that what is most precious is gone forever. There is that sorrow, the sense of emptiness.
But hope springs up... perhaps, just perhaps...and then cruelly as hopes are dashed, we die again.
Liberation comes with acceptance that it is gone, we have to start afresh, anew, what is lost is gone forever.
May you be liberated.
Thanks for your comments. YES, we have to "start afresh". I am also learning to "let go, and let God take care of it." We learn. We grow. And TODAY is a fresh new day.Live life to its fullest!
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