Acceptance and Loss

Those we love come into our lives.  They also leave our lives.  Sometimes the comings and goings are by choice.  Other times, the entrances and departures are involuntary.

Happiness lies is letting go – both of the entrances and the departures.

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
― Ray Bradbury

Letting go is painful.  The loss of a beloved innocent seems pointless – pain without reason. 

We must fully experience the pain before we can let it go.  Avoiding the pain leads to efforts to reclaim what is lost--and that is not possible.

Moving towards acceptance frees us from the losses of the past.  Acceptance does not change the loss into something else, or replace that which was lost.  Acceptance is the key to a future, and to freedom.  Without acceptance, we languish in the prison of sorrow and loss.