Steps
I've been places recently . . . in many senses of the word. I've been in a place where everyone needs help. I've been in a place where you are not free to come and go as you please. I've been in a place where the mind is a key that has the power to lock and unlock doors. I've been both secluded and surrounded by people. I've been down dark paths and dead ends and places I didn't know I could be.
Through it all, I realized my thoughts have often been selfish. The perspective changes when you experience the loss of another. When you realize just how interconnected people really are, and you wonder about the things you could have done or said differently and whether it could have made any difference at all. Thinking of interaction and the impact we have on the lives of others. That consideration becomes traction that helps keeps you firmly on the road even when the forces involved seem to want to push or pull you off the edge of the cliff.
You keep going, one step at a time.
You don't have to do this alone.
Through it all, I realized my thoughts have often been selfish. The perspective changes when you experience the loss of another. When you realize just how interconnected people really are, and you wonder about the things you could have done or said differently and whether it could have made any difference at all. Thinking of interaction and the impact we have on the lives of others. That consideration becomes traction that helps keeps you firmly on the road even when the forces involved seem to want to push or pull you off the edge of the cliff.
You keep going, one step at a time.
You don't have to do this alone.