An excerpt from Tuesdays With Morrie:
..."But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grieve is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment."..."Step away from it. Step away."
~ The Sixth Tuesday, pages 102-105.
I think that this is a very powerful excerpt from this book, and one that I know that I can learn from. I actually had my first lesson just this evening. Somehow during conversation tonight with Stephen, he told me that he was "going to give me a baby in Aruba." Now while part of me is thrilled to have some sort of date in mind, the other part is infinitely disappointed that he's going to make me wait another 6 months. Not only did I want a baby because I miss what I started, but it is now exponentially worse because my best friend is pregnant. One of the few things that I thought would get me through these upcoming tough times is the hope that I may be pregnant when she feels the baby kick or finds out the sex of the baby or decorating the nursery or deciding on a name or even giving birth. But I let myself embrace the grief and disappointment and then I remembered what I read. So far I've been able to "step away" and hopefully the next time the self-pity hits, it will be easier to recover.
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