Today, when I hear that someone has cancer or is going through a divorce, I do not pretend to know what their suffering, if any, is related to. For some, divorce may be a relief or the freedom that they had been craving for a lifetime. Perhaps immediately, that person is autonomous of charge from suffering. My orientation is that a divorce would be painful. My projection, however, is not everyone’s truth. In getting sick with cancer or some other terminal illness I see immediately that this is part of a journey for someone. It does not have to be a final lesson of lifetime, although it may. It is more likely that their infinite soul will go on to delight in another journey. There are all kinds of lessons to be learned in a single lifetime and I have no thought what brings illness, divorce or other seemingly dense circumstances to anyone else’s lifetime. I should never pretend I know. I just demand to be present and to let them be.
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