When It Ends
"When your relationship first began, you did not think about how it would end. You did not think about what you would do when this happened or where you would turn or how you would feel." (Miller, 1995)
We live in the moment. We do not worry about what is to come before it is due. Life goes on seemingly to follow a rhythm. We are born. We walk as a child then as man (or woman). We marry. We raise children. We grow old. And then we die.
It is when that rhythm is disrupted that it causes inner conflict (cognitive dissonance). There is confusion when our expectations are dashed or our hopes and dreams unrealized. We are lost because we are out of sync with the perpetual and romantic notions that life proceeds in determinable phases.
Now what? How do I start the day and how do I end it? The pattern is no longer there because you are no longer in my world. How easy it is for me to lose my courage to wake up and find new meaning in a world I no longer share with you.
We live in the moment. We do not worry about what is to come before it is due. Life goes on seemingly to follow a rhythm. We are born. We walk as a child then as man (or woman). We marry. We raise children. We grow old. And then we die.
It is when that rhythm is disrupted that it causes inner conflict (cognitive dissonance). There is confusion when our expectations are dashed or our hopes and dreams unrealized. We are lost because we are out of sync with the perpetual and romantic notions that life proceeds in determinable phases.
Now what? How do I start the day and how do I end it? The pattern is no longer there because you are no longer in my world. How easy it is for me to lose my courage to wake up and find new meaning in a world I no longer share with you.