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appreciate that I’m giving it to you while you’re young.” I took a breath. “It doesn’t matter who a man’s father is. Your parents made a child, but it’s up to you to make the man you’ll be.”
Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
“When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.”
The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.
Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.”
Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume that we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as times goes by.
So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
