Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. - Cheryl Strayed

That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.
We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.