My sister’s best friend killed herself yesterday. She jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. All I can think about is the fragility of life and how it is like tissue paper, can crumple at any time at just the lightest touch. I feel pain for my family, deep pain for the planet, and pain for myself and I wonder how I hold it all sometimes. I know I’m becoming a stronger, wiser, more resilient person because of all of this.
It’s so hard to witness my sister in pain. She is strong but I think she is strong in the ways that our society teaches one to be strong, which is not soft. She doesn’t experience emotion in the ways that I do, which is very fully, so to experience her breaking down and really letting life — and death — in, is very powerful. I am proud of her and love her so deeply.
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