Here lately, so much has been happening that it is difficult for us to know the extent to which it impacts us – we just have a lot of swirling thoughts and those that remind us of the past, of course, as life has a habit of digging up those and bringing them forward.
Our friends’ daughter was killed in an auto accident last week, and swiftly all the events of their lives were set out, on a different path. Instantly, just like that. It happens. These are reminders that we are not in control here. We only have glimpses that we call control, like my fingers on this keyboard. Fleeting.
We hold onto our forward course, but sometimes the course changes – and we are disrupted onto a new course of moving forward, just in a different direction. Similar events from my past are re-lived in understanding and empathizing with my friends. We share the road of the common experience. Our minds adjust, as much as they can – but they are changed minds. Human experience is that way.
She was a beautiful girl, but had challenges throughout her life. Where she seemed to flourish the most was at the time she had her babies but still she seemed challenged to attain a solid happy spot in her life. We will miss her and it goes to remind us how people touch our lives, no matter how distant they are, you do get pulled into the relationships once you meet them, watch them grow up, and become young adults…
