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I grieve the lost time, the hours where I couldn’t function. I grieve the lost relationship or damaged ones. I grieve the goals that had to be abandoned or signicantly modified. But I also try to embrace the good days and hours, to repair and nuture the relationship I have and develop other, and I strive towards new or modified goals. I grieve the past, but I embrace the present and future.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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