Re: I call myself 'fledgling' for a reason...
One more thing I have noticed...
I figure that we all go to fulfillment, contentment, all our questions answered, in the end. (I've read some of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.)
And I subscribe to Einstein's suggestion that there is no 'time' or 'distance'.
So-o-o...if I already AM whole, young, beautiful, healthy, loved and loving, and so on...all I need to do right now is to get out of my own way...to be completely fulfilled, now.
We have all these checks and balances, to keep us safe in case of disaster. But, if disaster isn't happening right this very minute, and, even if it is, it is much smarter to enjoy this world as we find it, and as it possibly could be.
Trust your imagination to always find the happiest side of things...it really is there.
Grief fades, it isn't lasting. It is a physical impossibility to cry forever.
Yoga afficionados can laugh for 20 minutes, I've heard, even if there is nothing funny going on.
In public, they may come and carry them away, but at least they have the health benefits. (Hee-hee.)
F.