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Another book, and, not quotes this time, but lessons.
The first lesson; we are all connected. “That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. […] The human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone; it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
The second lesson; sacrifice. “Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”
The third lesson; forgiving. When you don’t forgive, when you don’t forget, you’re stuck. It stops you from moving forward, because you’re still blaming something else for your own problems.
The fourth lesson; love. “Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
“Life has to end,” she said. “Love doesn’t.”
The last lesson. You can always re-pay; you can always make it up. No matter what you have done, there is always some way to make it better. Never give up on a friendship, because there is no deed unforgivable. Never let go of something you hold dearly, even if it’s too tattered to hold on to, there is some way to re-build it. In life and in death, there is never a total loss.
- Views from “the five people you meet in heaven” by Mitch Albom.
