Where to go from here?

What do you want to do in life? Do you want to go another year, go  through life doing today the same thing over and over again? It is too easy to get comfortable in a place and position (even one that pays so poorly and in which you feel so underappreciated...). Wake up...

Stop "riding the wave", start thinking about ( better yet do actually !) Making waves. Year after year, for three years almost it is the same job, same people, same kind of routine. Are you not tired? Are you not feeling stifled and stunted in your growth and in life?

I am. I truly feel it. No wonder there are days I just feel like sleeping and am just so demotivated to do anything at all. Because there is no joy I derive from work, no passion which fuels my very being and everyday life.

Decide what you want... Make a choice, make a decision. Cut away the weed and toxic parts of life, and work toward a goal, a destination, a greater good and greater future than just getting by and getting till the end of the week.

My life is worth far more than that. 
My parents would want far more from me than just living a mundane life of being mediocre and lacking in passion and excitement.

Condolences

How do you write a condolence letter? How to you write  in  a way that the other person knows you feel their loss and "live with them" (medeleven)?



I searched my email for the word "condolence". What appeared were messages from three years ago... from my colleagues, from friends, from the ex. I read them, and emotions flooded back. People write words and they can be so powerful still when you read them years later. But do they mean them? Do words lose their meaning with time? Do people forget their good intentions and the compassionate understanding they expressed with words?

One wrote that the coming weeks, months and years will be difficult as I process the emotions and realities... One wrote about how he admired my strength and courage over the years... another wrote about being there for me no matter what...



As we experience loss, personally and also through others, do we learn how to deal with loss and how to comfort those who have lost loved ones? What words are appropriate, just, and lasting that will still retain their meaning through time and space? 

May the souls and minds of the departed rest... may the living and those left behind heal and learn to cope with that void and loss. Nothing is easy. And no words, however comforting they are meant to be, however beautiful and eloquent, can do justice to emotions and the depths of memories and lives we have shared with loved ones.