This is a reflection not on
romantic love, but love.
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I love you, even though we
have never met. I love you because you have suffered a terrible loss and are
grieving. I know how important it is in this time to feel love from other people, even
people you don’t know.
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"I want to love like this because after people came and cared for me in the early months of my grief, they slipped away unobtrusively, their work done. My gratitude to them runs deep." - "So many people need a kind word, a moment of our listening, and nothing more than this. To know that someone else understands, that someone else has endured a similar grief, helps ease the sorrow." Thank you for this collection of beautiful thoughts. It feels like a promise to yourself. A promise to show up and exist. I am glad you are here, Mark. I am glad you show up and share your words.
ReplyDeleteAh, it is people like you, Elea, that inspires me to write such things.
DeleteThank you for this, Mark. It is beautiful. I share the gratitude you spoke of, for the people who wrapped their arms around me when I was in my deepest grief. And I, too, want to open my arms wide, to others who need it, which is all of us. It is hard work and it is the most important thing we can do for the planet. I am sharing this. Hope you don't mind.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tricia. One way you open your heart is through your insightful writings about grief.
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