I have spent my whole naive life assuming that the pain of rejection at the hands of a woman I feel a strong attraction to is as bad a feeling as there can be.
It happened to me many times from age 13 to 25 or so, and I don't think I ever really recovered from any of them.
I have been basing this on my own selfishness.
Since I'm single, I haven't really considered this before, but thanks to Van Morrison's "T.B. Sheets", I now have:
To have a partner, a loved one, a wife, who gets sick and loses a battle with a disease is the most heartbreaking real aspect of life that one can imagine.
It is inescapable, there are no easy answers, there are no silver linings.
People can go on with their lives, but they are never the same afterwards. They deserve all of our love and support in some way that I can't figure out.
Life is a beautiful gift, but it is not always easy. The best way to live is to give what we can to help others who are struggling with it more than we are.
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