Sometimes courage is nothing more than daring to go on living - alone - after having been part of a couple.
It's daring to go back out into the world, continuing to put one foot in front of the other, as you walk into an unknown future - taking all of your Self with you.
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- Rambling Rose
- I grew up in a large family, married young, survived two husbands, raised two children, helped raise two granddaughters and a great-niece. I am now retired from the workforce and am committed to finding out who I am outside all the roles I buried myself in.
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I never thought of that as "courage" Rose. It was just putting one foot in front of the other - day after day - until life became tolerable.
Yeah, I know what you mean. We don't think of it as courage - just as "doing what you have to do when you have to do it" - but sometimes that takes deep courage even if we don't call it that.
Id like to think you're right Rose! Coming up on 5 years (this weekend) and at times I still falter. But...I keep on going.
I'm sorry about the loss of your brother. You are in my prayers.
Yannow, PWW and DW,...I have found that I just can't get to anywhere that I want to be without taking my whole self with me......
It's Life, and that's what we do....
I replied to this comment yesterday, DW, and it got lost in cyberspace; so here I go again. I don't know if my original response will resurface, or not.
Faltering...then keeping on going...that is what courage is all about...and you have it, believe me,,,,it shines through and reaches others quite often.
I will be praying for you this weekend. I know how much it still hurts - even five years later. My senior friends (all widows) kept telling me it would take five years to move beyond the grief. It took me six years to finally be able to face life without him. Oh, I still tried before that but all of me wasn't there - the hole in my heart was just too big.
Hang in there! Do something nice for yourself sometime this weekend. I will light a candle for you.
You are so right, Howlsatmoon. As usual, you hit the nail right on the head. We take our whole self with us, wherever we go - our hopes and dreams for the future, our struggle with the present, and our wounds from the past.
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