Grief and love

 Anderson Cooper is hosting a new podcast about grief and I heard him say during an interview

"Fall in love with the thing you wish had never  happened."

Wow, I have been cogitating on that since I heard it.

Then I was listening to Ken Burns being interviewed on NPR about his Revolutionary War series and he was talking about his mother dying when he was 11 and how everything he has accomplished has essentially been due to that. And I thought, damn, he fell in love with the thing he wished had never happened.

It takes so much self love and self knowledge to achieve this, but I really want to be a person who can be that evolved and wise...