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As I chanced upon my neighbour in the supermarket this morning, her usual cheerful happy countenance had been replaced by a sombre, sad face, and I asked, as I always do, ‘How are you?’
In her soft, quiet tone of voice, barely above an audible whisper, she replied, ‘Not so good’.
Living in this busy, fast-paced modern world, it is so rare that someone admits, with openness to what they are really feeling. I know that I too am guilty of guessing and second guessing my emotions, before I typically brush all negativity aside and respond with ‘I’m great!’
And so I paused, took an hopefully imperceptible deep breath and asked, ‘What’s happened?’
Her story comes tumbling out, barely is there time for a breath before her tears start falling too. Her sister, several thousands of miles away, has passed away, shockingly, suddenly.
Her sister’s story
She had travelled to Cape Town, from St Helena, for laser surgery to her eyes, when the doctors determined that they needed to check her heart. It turns out she required a heart by-pass surgery, that they performed. Unfortunately she never fully recovered from the surgery and after two days, she passed away.
And so it leaves my dear friend, thousands of miles away, heart-broken and grief stricken, believing that she could have made a difference. ‘If only I were there,’ she said, more than once.
And although she thinks her grief is for her sister, it was in that really inspired teaching moment, that I came to realise, her grief was never only for her sister.
Her grief was also for herself
– the moments she believed things could have been different, if only she was there.
– the words that could have been said, if only she was there
– the love she could have held on to, if only she was there
and now that her sister was gone, all these possibilities were seemingly extinguished without any hope of ever being rekindled.
And so as I asked her, ‘In life, is this what your sister would have wanted you to feel?’
With a barely visible slow shake of her head, she said, ‘But I just wish, I could have seen her.’
And so here, with a close, heartfelt hug, I shared all that I knew, all that I was certain of.
1. Open the door to tears and pain and grief but know, know that the person or people you mourn for are perfectly fine, happy, healthy and free
There’s nothing wrong with crying, with feeling despair, sadness or grief.
Embrace each emotion, embrace each experience, but know that the pain you feel is but within yourself.
In time, all will be well again.
2. You choose everything that you believe
I said to her, ‘Your sister is free, she is happy and she is well now. Cry for her, mourn for her, if you must, but know that she does not need it.’
She asked, ‘I don’t know. I cannot yet believe that she is in joy and happiness, how do you do it?’
‘You see,’ I explained, ‘we have a choice. We can choose to believe that she is well and happy and experiencing the most joy she has ever felt. Or, we can choose to believe that she is in pain and in suffering and that she is being punished. When faced with these choices, which one would you choose?’
And through her tears, she nodded and whispered, ‘I would choose that she is happy.’
3. Let death be not a parting, but a celebration of the joy of a life well-lived
I have come to believe that there is nothing lost in death, for we are merely on our own journeys and life adventures. Death is but the beginning of yet another exciting adventure.
And so, I left my friend, I hope a little more calm, a little more soothed but also realising that I had learnt so many more lessons for myself in that brief encounter.
Take care, be well, and remember, live, live in celebration of your own life every day.
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Day by day, we so often live our emotions dictated by the reactions and responses of the people around us.
We feel hurt when others don’t agree with our point of view, or when someone says something off-hand and thoughtless. We almost always take it upon ourselves to bear the burden of emotion.
I’ll see you there, in that happy place
Where joy and happiness fill the air
Where laughter knows no bounds
I’ll see you there
Where smiles are shared
And hugs are free
Where colours light our world
I’ll see you there
Where life is lived with ease and light
Where flowers line our paths
I’ll see you there
Where raindrops fall and sunshine springs
To bless our very heart
I’ll see you there, my friend
Where we will always choose
All smiles and joy and happiness
For that is all that life should bring
Have you forgotten who you truly are?
If in this hasty life, where hurries and worries press upon your day,
Let me remind you of who you truly are,
For I remember.
I remember that…
You are the most beautiful, most amazing child of the Universe
You deserve above all else to live a joy-filled, happy, exciting life
This does not mean that you will never be sad or unhappy,
This does not mean there will never be bumps upon the road you travel
What it truly means is that
You deserve every smile, hug, grin and kindness that another shares with you
You deserve to enjoy the warmth of the sun and to dance in the rain
You deserve to gaze in awe at the millions of stars in the night sky
And listen in rapture to the song of a bird
You deserve to see the wonder in all that surrounds you
And above all, you deserve to remember
Remember, that there truly is no one else as special as you are.
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Take care, keep smiling and be happy.
When I was a young slip of a child in Primary school, we went through a mad phase of collecting each others autographs. The logic quite defies me now, as we were all going on to the same secondary school mainly, but the excitement of getting someone else to fill in your book with corny poems, decorate it with pretty stickers and oh the joy and pleasure in looking through just what this friend had to say about you, to you, for you – what fun!
I have recently been contemplating the word Work a lot and I have been wondering whether the word work conjures the same mental images for you as it does for me? You see, when I think of the word Work, I think of effort and difficulty and…not so much pain, but certainly not ease.
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Whatever the circumstances of your life right now,
Believe, no, know that you are PERFECT exactly as you are.
For you are not your past, and
Your future is yet to be,
Be here right now,
in this present moment,
All is as it is meant to be.
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Take care, keep smiling and be happy.
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