pain

On losing a friend to death: Every day of our lives, causality is playing out, leaving no one behind. One day, we are working on causes; dealing with consequences the next. Some days, our past comes knocking back, just to see if we learned from it the lessons we were supposed to. Sometimes, the lesson is compassion. Sometimes it is self-love. In the last month, I've been pushed to look at the past twice, once to learn to forgive and the other to see where I would be if I hadn't learned my lesson. I learned the latter by losing…