Copernicus Crater on the Moon
It’s said that a flame manifests when the conditions are right. There is no positive or negative to its existence, it happens and then something else happens, all when conditions support it.
So what if you get struck by a meteor? The conditions support it, all elements in place, boom, streak, bang! you’re out. Unfair? Perhaps, in a limited view. But perhaps not. Paralyzed or dead, you are there and it happened. And what happens afterward – conditions support that too. It doesn’t care how bad the timing is, or how much you really wanted to be alive. “To care” is a limited view, because it exists in comparison with “to not care”.
Then there’s compassion. I’ve had a lesson in compassion that I will not forget, which has left me reeling. Thankfully, being human, after the initial shock of the distressing conditions, I am now totally numb. Call it shock, if you must label it. But I feel like the walking dead.
But my feet move forward. I prepare dinner, tuck in the children, write what I need to write to complete my work obligations. This is what is happening, what follows after I have been struck what ought to be a mortal blow. I don’t know what comes next. Right now, I don’t much care. Just one foot in front of the other is as far as I go. More than that is to invite the meteor blow – reliving it again and again.
Blessed human existence. To be able to be aware enough to understand the pain of loss, to give up what you want and not be able to speak of it to anyone. And life goes on. No point in asking why.
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The Meteor Strike
Copernicus Crater on the Moon
It’s said that a flame manifests when the conditions are right. There is no positive or negative to its existence, it happens and then something else happens, all when conditions support it.
So what if you get struck by a meteor? The conditions support it, all elements in place, boom, streak, bang! you’re out. Unfair? Perhaps, in a limited view. But perhaps not. Paralyzed or dead, you are there and it happened. And what happens afterward – conditions support that too. It doesn’t care how bad the timing is, or how much you really wanted to be alive. “To care” is a limited view, because it exists in comparison with “to not care”.
Then there’s compassion. I’ve had a lesson in compassion that I will not forget, which has left me reeling. Thankfully, being human, after the initial shock of the distressing conditions, I am now totally numb. Call it shock, if you must label it. But I feel like the walking dead.
But my feet move forward. I prepare dinner, tuck in the children, write what I need to write to complete my work obligations. This is what is happening, what follows after I have been struck what ought to be a mortal blow. I don’t know what comes next. Right now, I don’t much care. Just one foot in front of the other is as far as I go. More than that is to invite the meteor blow – reliving it again and again.
Blessed human existence. To be able to be aware enough to understand the pain of loss, to give up what you want and not be able to speak of it to anyone. And life goes on. No point in asking why.
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