I wonder: how often do other people think, "This life is unbearable," and then push through to the next moment? What is the statistical frequency?
Is it my fragility, my lack of self-esteem that makes me so vulnerable to life's blows? What childhood issue must I resolve? What medicine should I take?
How can I be an example of resilience to my children if I feel bewildered and broken?
Yet I know this burden is a gift.
You've been sobbing so hard you can barely breathe
You've been stitching your heart on the outside of your sleeve
You've been wrung out and then doused with grief
In the ocean of time this moment will be brief
Oh I know it's going to get harder before it gets easier....
The muddled position of our hearts will shift
Position of our hearts will shift
And someday this burden of loving will lift....
~David Wax Museum, Harder Before it gets Easier
Let the globe, if nothing
else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved,
we grew
That even as we hurt,
we hoped
That even as we tired,
we tried
~Amanda Gorman
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