She finally understood.
The pain of the loss was the proof that she once had him.
There was always going to be loss and always going to be pain.
It can come sooner or later.
Experienced on spikes, in installments, over a long period, all at once...
Integrating pain, no matter the distribution along the time,
is always going to give you the same unbearable amount
If she was given to option to never had had him to avoid the pain of losing him so abruptly,
or having him for the short amount of time she had,
she would have no other choice then take him for how long she could,
no matter the pain.
Not sure I follow the connection from pain, loss and the choices based on that to the analogy about life being a waiting room.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, the description of pain distribution is interesting.