It's a new year, right? A fresh beginning? Time to start over? Devote a year to good things, right? I just got to thinking...
We make statements about leaving last year in the past. We want to overcome obstacles and challenge ourselves but as we are leaving parts of our lives in the past or letting go or moving forward...someone else is just beginning.
In my journey, my post and my life usually surrounds baby loss. So every hurdle or obstacle I overcome, I'm happy that I hit a new point in our grief or what not. But then I stop and I think...somebody else is just beginning. The journey into this new normal starts for someone every minute. Every minute in the US a baby is born via miscarriage. How crazy is that?!? Makes our daily struggles seem like nothing sometimes right?
I visited Bentley sometime last week, and there was a very large funeral going on. I saw a family standing above a plot. A hole in the ground. Saying good bye. Starting a new normal without their loved one. And I think, urgh the year just began and already saying goodbye. Their 2014 is already starting out difficult and it literally had just begun a day before. My heart just broke.
Then I met a couple who lost their baby on New Years Eve. What a way to spend the new year? I am thankful to be able to talk with this couple. But it just puts daily struggle into perspective. We all had bad days, but is our day as bad as someone else's? I guess that's the point... Think about it next time you complain.