I was talking with a…

I was talking with a friend the other night about losing loved ones.   I can’t remember her exact words but she included imagery that described how our relationships with each other could be pictured as inter connections.  She went on to describe how when we lose a loved one it feels like part of those connections are lost.

Tonight I was over reading Marek and he was writing similarly about some quotes from Joseph Conrad’s “Notes on Life and Letters” : “one can not help but to see a man fully aware of the passing of life, fragile skeleton we all build with our relationships to others, the others’ skeletons of life; and then to know that our constructions were only a mere temporary housing for the humanity we only have had glimpses of, and perhaps some of our pieces of construction material and methods shall be used as building blocks for others that will come after us to afford them better glimpses of humanity within themeslves, chance will tell.”

I would never have thought that I would feel like one of those “others that will come after us”, but I find myself in that place.