That Widow

Day 153 and it’s true.

I was reading a book and it wasn’t about death or dying or anything but there was a line that said grief is the price you pay for love. Wow, that hit hard. It’s the truth though. Even if someone doesn’t die but you get divorced or you broke up, whatever the situation is, you have to pay for that loss of love. Grief is that price. Some how we all subject ourselves to it at one point or another. We keep going back to it. It’s like a magnetic force that keeps drawing us to it and then, at least for me, we’re surprised when it ends and we’re left with a broken heart.

I always thought that we wouldn’t be at this point in our lives until we were much older. When our kids were grown. After we got them through college and they were married and had kids of their own. We would grow old and grey together. Truly thought we would have another 40-50 years together. We didn’t and it ended far too soon but that’s the price I paid. That’s the price my kids paid.

Day 153 and everything comes with a price.