So many people I know have died since 2021, that I just feel numb now, when I hear of another death. However, I've known what was coming since 1990. That's a long time to adjust to the reality that I would likely outlive everyone I know. I now look at the online obits several times a day. Btw, did you take your name from Anne of Green Gables?
So many people I know have died since 2021, that I just feel numb now, when I hear of another death. However, I've known what was coming since 1990. That's a long time to adjust to the reality that I would likely outlive everyone I know. I now look at the online obits several times a day. Btw, did you take your name from Anne of Green Gables?
I'm sorry to hear about the wave of deaths you're experiencing. You are right that it helps that you were somewhat mentally prepared... although I know I will still take it really hard once I start losing more people closer to me. How can you ever really be ready for what we're going through?
I took my name from the character Cordelia in Shakespeare's King Lear. She was the only female Shakespearean character I ever truly related to. If you know the story, she was someone who refused to lie even when doing so would have been to her (short-term) advantage. Thank you for the information about the Anne of Green Gables connection - i didn't know about it, but I like it!
Anne of Green Gables wishes her given name was Cordelia, so she adopts it as her middle name.
I have become very hardened after all I have been through in the last 34 years. I don't feel much when I learn of another death. I never wanted become as such...but it is, what it is. My relatives on my dad's side lived through WWII in Europe. I now understand how people can become very hardened by living through a war.
Good point about how people before us had to live through wars that took their loved ones' lives. And we are in a kind of war... a spiritual, as well as a material one. Trouble is so many of us have become so soft and have never really suffered. Thanks for the reminder of how those who came before us had to find ways to pull through.
I hope you can still keep a place in your heart soft. I don't know what it's like to go through what you have - yet - and I appreciate your sharing what the road ahead is going to be like. God bless you.
So many people I know have died since 2021, that I just feel numb now, when I hear of another death. However, I've known what was coming since 1990. That's a long time to adjust to the reality that I would likely outlive everyone I know. I now look at the online obits several times a day. Btw, did you take your name from Anne of Green Gables?
I'm sorry to hear about the wave of deaths you're experiencing. You are right that it helps that you were somewhat mentally prepared... although I know I will still take it really hard once I start losing more people closer to me. How can you ever really be ready for what we're going through?
I took my name from the character Cordelia in Shakespeare's King Lear. She was the only female Shakespearean character I ever truly related to. If you know the story, she was someone who refused to lie even when doing so would have been to her (short-term) advantage. Thank you for the information about the Anne of Green Gables connection - i didn't know about it, but I like it!
Anne of Green Gables wishes her given name was Cordelia, so she adopts it as her middle name.
I have become very hardened after all I have been through in the last 34 years. I don't feel much when I learn of another death. I never wanted become as such...but it is, what it is. My relatives on my dad's side lived through WWII in Europe. I now understand how people can become very hardened by living through a war.
Good point about how people before us had to live through wars that took their loved ones' lives. And we are in a kind of war... a spiritual, as well as a material one. Trouble is so many of us have become so soft and have never really suffered. Thanks for the reminder of how those who came before us had to find ways to pull through.
I hope you can still keep a place in your heart soft. I don't know what it's like to go through what you have - yet - and I appreciate your sharing what the road ahead is going to be like. God bless you.