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Reflections on loss, this 11th day of September
By David Allen

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There are two lessons which can be drawn from loss: One is that life is ultimately futile. All that we love will die and we cannot prevent this. We can let each death harden us, make us cavalier in our pronouncements and opinions about other people’s lives. We can become dead while we yet breathe.

Or we can understand that each life is irreplaceable, and should be cherished, nurtured and loved. Those of us who have lost should remember the pain we share with others and try to guide the recently wounded back to the light. Those who have never experienced such a loss should close their eyes and try to imagine it, try to prepare for the day it comes to them. Try to understand the unfathomable. And while none of us can stop the random, senseless deaths, we should do all in our power to stop the vindictive, spiteful deaths. We should remember that the pain is no less acute because it happens to people we hate.

We all wake up at night in terror. We all hope to find what we have lost just behind the next door.

(via Lex)