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- From: motto@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (mary.rita.otto)
- Subject: Re: Better to have loved and lost...?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.232208.1314@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Dec23.200043.21719@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:22:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.200043.21719@microsoft.com> a-markov@microsoft.com (Mark Overby) writes:
- >
- >"Is it better to have loved and lost, or never to have loved
- >at all?"
-
- Mark,
-
- To answer this question, you need to back away from the specific case of
- your loss and realize that you are still grieving. While you are grieving
- you will continue to feel angry and hurt and sad at times. That is the
- natural process of grieving.
-
- But to answer the broad philosophical question, think about other people
- in your life who you have loved and who are no longer with you. Grandparents,
- parents, special friends who moved away and vanished forever, etc. These
- people may have enriched your life, and left you with memories and feelings
- which you will cherish always. If you can look to these examples and say
- that your life is better because of those experiences and memories, then
- you can say it is true.
-
- In the heart of our despair we wish that we had never gotten into the
- position of being so badly hurt. But would my life have been better
- if I had never had for a best friend a girl who died at 17? Would my
- life have been better had my mother died before I got to know her? I
- honestly have to answer no to both; that each was worth the pain of
- their loss.
-
- I hope, Mark, that you will continue to grieve until all the pain and
- hurt and anger and sadness is gone. Expressing it allows it to drain
- off until you can remember, and while remembering, experience the
- pleasant feelings of the memories without the overwhelming sadness and
- pain of mourning.
-
- Peace,
- Mary Otto
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