Helping Hands

A sad day in Who Ville.  Lives take turns, sharp ones at times.  Our "job" if you will, is to find the strength necessary to walk through those turns.  However, like many people I know, I want to try to 'go around' pain.  Act like it doesn't matter, pretend it isn't there.  However, sometimes it comes out a intense anger which simply masks the underlying issue:  FEAR! 
I have someone in my life that is going through this.  I talked with them and can be there but unfortunately I nor anyone else can take away their pain or walk the walk they inevitably must walk.  To say this statement, "it sucks" while sounding childlike, is the truth.  Avoidance at all cost simply puts off the one thing we wished we could steer clear of anyway.  The truth.  Life on Life's terms, not ours.  How many times did I try to force what I wanted, what I thought was best for me and for you.  Ha!  Life stared right back at me, as I'm sure it is for him this morning, and says - uh uh uh.  I'm not going anywhere.  You will have to deal with this. 
It's the stages of grief, to the realization that our choices brought us to this point.  And plainly speaking sometimes it just doesn't work out.  People change, people leave, people have their own agenda as we do.  When we are no longer on the same page, if you will, that drifting becomes more evident in the actions they show.  Or the emotionless attachment they don't show.  We can choose to do lots of escaping........ But in the end............ life wins. 

This is the beginning of his journey..... I pray to that huge, wonderful power that can and will save our souls.  In the meantime I hope he does not mourn himself to death.

One P.S. to note:  I am sober and here to help, HELP this wonderful spirit of a person come to terms with what lies ahead.

Sober and Not Afraid to face life.......  How about you?