Dealing with Loss

All we deal with in life is loss. We lose the protective comfort of the womb. We lose our mother's breast. We lose the right to mess in our pants. We lose friends, teachers, relatives. We lose our hair, our teeth and our youth.

We keep losing all these things and never get them back, but we never really learn how to deal with the loss. We never really say that it hurts, really hurts, and so we spend the rest of our lives trying to make up for it, holding on tightly to things that we should really let go of.

-Feeling the loss

[Louie Anderson, "Dear Dad"]