Life is fragile…
February 24, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
As widows and widowers, we know how fragile life actually is…in that fragility lies pain. Yet if you think of fragility, isn’t that what makes life so precious ? It is the not knowing, the sense that life doesn’t last forever, the sense that it can all be taken away from us at any moment. If you think of fine art, the fragility of porcelain actually increases it’s value….isn’t that the same for human life?
There is a paradox in grief, the pain comes from the fragility….the joy we had came from the fragility of being human. In a sense joy …read more
