Nov 4, 2014

Is There Purpose In Crisis?

  1. "Perhaps the purpose in crisis, if there is one, is not to break us as much as to break us open." Mark Nepo

    Humans have long pondered the purpose of crisis and trauma.  Whole books have been written about why bad things happen to good people.  It seems that Mark Nepo hits at the truth of it -- if there is a purpose in crisis, then it is to break us open; not to break us.  I wonder sometimes why dementia descended on the good man I married.  He does not deserve it, but - then - perhaps no one deserves the "bad" things that happen to them.  Perhaps it is best to just not take it personally.  Bad things do seem to happen in this universe.  Perhaps it is better to consider in what ways we need to be broken open and allow that to happen by the crisis of caregiving.

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