Monday Musings

I hope everyone I know has a fabulous weekend, but also, I hope everyone I don’t know has a fabulous weekend. Fabulousity is contagious. Let’s spread some around. Fall is finally rolling in around here, slowly but surely. Good grief, it’s about time.

I heard a story yesterday about a young couple. They had only been married for 4 months when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. They were very much in love, and she proceeded to describe their last moments together. She was lying in bed with him holding him. He had been very very sick on that particular day, and by this point was even too weak to talk. She whispered in his ear that the next day they would stay in bed all day and watch movies, and he smiled at her and went to sleep. She awoke about 2a.m. feeling a change in the air. Her words, “his soul was no longer in the room.” I’m beginning to cry as I type this, but I had to share it. She then said that she had never once, not one time, ever thought that he would leave her. She never thought he would die.

As she was baring her soul, and laying naked before us one of the most monumental moments in her life, my heart started to break for her. It was like peeking inside of a door none of us ever wants to walk through, but we’re never given the choice. You could feel her pain, and taste her sadness, even if it was only a fraction. That is real humanity.

We’ve all been there whether it’s enduring unimaginable grief, or unfathomable joy, or those completey human feelings like pain, rejection, contentment, peace………..when you share it with someone else, suddenly you’re no longer alone, and the world doesn’t seem so big.

Sometimes the sadness is unbearable, and you wake up one more day to find you must bear it all over again. Take pleasure in the sunrise. Notice the child in the store, and smile. Listen, you can hear. Feel a breeze take your breath away.

It’s just a day, but it’s what we have. Let’s make the best of it.