When it’s Lost Forever
Humans have a strange way of learning. As babies, we have to fall before we can walk. As a child, we learn about danger through pain. Until we get our hands on that hot thing, we seem guided by that invisible force to discover it. I remember my mother, serious look in her eyes, warning me not to touch that sharp thing. But that blade fascinated me. It seemed harmless. It was only after another experience, as painful for my finger as for my ego, that I understood the reason for my mother’s admonition.
I’d earned the endless “I told you.” And understood that pain is a learning tool that teaches us the limits of our kingdom. In adolescence and adulthood, emotional pain replaces physical pain.
Pain becomes a teacher. Wisdom, the lessons of this one.Several types of pain will punctuate our human experience. One of the worst will be loss. Human beings are strangely wired. We only realize the importance of certain things when we’ve lost them. Absence becomes obvious when it’s gone.
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