So, so true. I don’t think I realized how much I loved my grandma until I lost her. Same goes for my best friend/love interest/now ex-friend…didn’t actually realize how much I loved him until he betrayed me. Fun.
You make a good point, Emma, that whether the contact ends for natural reasons or otherwise, the loss teaches us about what we value. Thank you for commenting.
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So, so true. I don’t think I realized how much I loved my grandma until I lost her. Same goes for my best friend/love interest/now ex-friend…didn’t actually realize how much I loved him until he betrayed me. Fun.
You make a good point, Emma, that whether the contact ends for natural reasons or otherwise, the loss teaches us about what we value. Thank you for commenting.
Apropos of your own Schopenhauer quote, you might like this one as well.
Thank you, Richard! I do love this one — i’ve had a t-shirt with this on it for many years… 🙂
Brief and to the point.
Sure is, Ellen. I appreciate its pithiness as well as its resonance with experience.
I have found this to be so true. Sad though that you sometimes have to lose someone to realize how much they really did mean to you.