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BETTER WITH SADNESS NOW
I’ve watched Star Trek…I know the space/time continuum is in a forward ever-constant flow…still I wonder why times of joy seem to be over so quickly…while times of sadness move so slow.
For years I was awkward when someone I loved was sad…
I wanted to make their sadness go away.
I would fumble around not knowing what to do…not knowing what to say.
Until I learned from being a friend, a husband a dad…and a granddad…
sometimes, in the midst of a happy life, people need time to be sad.
Perhaps that’s why, after a tragedy…a loss…a misfortune or a death…
time slows down so we can take a moment…to stop…and catch our breath.
A moment to be sad…to come to grips…to try and understand the pain we feel…
to take the time we need to discover our happiness again
to recover…to rebuild…to heal.
Now when someone I love is sad…I hold them tight…
the only words I whisper are, “I’ll never let you go.”
and in the silence of their sadness I allow their tears to flow.
Hoping to shine a little light into their darkness…
to soften or alleviate their fears….
as we float together in a boat….upon their sea of tears.
Offering them a silent smile…a touch…a hug…
hoping from these they will learn
that I will be beside them through their sadness
until their happiness returns.
Letting them know I have all the time in the world
to float with them upon this sea…
For however long it takes…
for however long that may be.
