The culmination of two and a half days of soul searching was as easy as placing the time line of my life on a long piece of paper. Happiness, sadness, successes, failures, changes that left their mark. It's all there marked in colored pencils on a four foot piece of paper. It was so easy.
And then I had to share it with my fellow students of the art of grieving. I had to be honest. I had to find that common theme throughout my life that has caused or contributed to the pain I have such difficulty dealing with. In those moments of revealing the events and challenges of my life, the light bulb went on.
Each time I repeated the key phrase, the one act that was consistent throughout every painful experience, the more open I became and the easier it was to understand not just the "why", but the "what am I going to do now?" I know my options for breaking the chain. The tools are in my hands. It's up to me.
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