Unless you’re emotionally attached to a sad event, it’s challenging to care about it. This post is asking for your empathy or your prayer. This post is asking that you think the same way about your own misfortunes.
When something ‘bad’ happens, particularly when it blindsides us, we are left in shock, and deeply hurting.
The antidote, at least from my 57 year perspective, is to cling to gratefulness as if our very life depends on it.
Find the reasons to be grateful, even as you cry uncontrollably.
There is literally no exception to “it could be worse”. It can always be worse. And often, it can always be much worse.
We all have shocking moments in life. July 14, 2014 was one of them.
The upside is that we were all together at our favorite place. It could have played out so much differently. i’m grateful that it didn’t.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
