Facing Life's Unpleasantness

We found out yesterday that a former neighbor (and a current friend) lost his wife to cancer.  We received the notice in an e-mail.

Boy I didn't want to deal with that.  I didn't want to let it affect me, make me cry, have to think of an appropriate response.  Life was too busy, we had a lot going on.

I am glad I did 'deal' with it.  Took a moment to empathize, shed a few tears, be a virtual shoulder to cry on and offer some words of encouragement.

In this stupid rat race that we make out of life, it is moments like these that true me back to humanity and the important stuff of life.  Not the 'good' things.  Not the easy the things.  It is the difficult things, the things that take strength of character to do.

It isn't cheap and it sure ain't easy.  Have a good one!