RULE TO BREAK
The best people will be there for you for life
Ah, if only this were true. The best people may indeed be with you for life – but it could be their life and not yours. The fact is that people die. Some of us learn this brutally as children, many of us are relatively sheltered from it until we get older. Perhaps as children we lose the odd grandparent when their time is up. But sooner or later, we’ll lose people who are really close – parents, siblings, best friends, even our own children.
I’m telling you this because if you haven’t yet discovered it for yourself, it will come as a horrible shock. Even though of course you know it intellectually, the reality is worse than you can imagine. And it will keep happening, all through ...
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