death cuts through

Death cuts through. Whether it’s a piece of family or a pet or a stranger in a car on a lonely road, death cuts through. The trick is to understand where to draw the line. If death gets too close to your core and you grieve for every soul lost from this earth, you will see emotional ruination. If you grieve for nothing and no one, you will be a zombie, a lifeless hulk that trudges slowly through this life and never really FEELS anything or cares for anyone. It may take a while to figure out where you stand on a particular death, but you can get there if you keep your mind to it and push ahead. And that’s what it is – pushing ahead. You are in the backyard of life, the sheets are all hung on the line to dry and you push into them, feeling the wet sweet smell against your face as it blinds and tantalizes you. Keep going and the sheet flows over you and drops away – you see bright light and clarity. Then you hit the next sheet and start again. There are a lot of sheets in this big backyard and you have to keep going because what’s the point if you stop? If you’re not moving you’re seeing the same sheet and the same line and the same damn backyard forever. And then you stop bothering to look, you‘ve seen it so many times it’s not going to look any different this time so why even look. Might as well settle in and take it as read, there’s nothing new.