Again from T.J. Wray's book
"Because siblings are united by a common bond forged in childhood, we live with the expectation that we'll somehow always be together as we journey through life. Oh we may divert from the common family path from time to time to pursue our own callings, but only our brothers and sisters know the way back to the original road where, together, we began our odyssey. In an uncertain world that is ever changing, chances are that your brother or sister has been a constant in your life, all your life. Losing a sibling, then, destroys the illusion of permanence in a more profound way than other deaths. Indeed, we take for granted that our siblings will be there to help us cope with the death of our parents, and we assume that our siblings, who are usually close to us in age, will grow old alongside us. Naturally, we feel abandoned when this assumption is decimated by death. Of course, abandonment issues are particularly difficult when you've lost your only sibling."
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