fallen verses

Hugh over at GapingVoid has an interesting tidbit on the “Post-Dreaming Reality,” which I thought was interesting.  Bruce Lynn left a comment on that post about a post he did in a similar vein.  It’s a fairly lengthy post and I only want to quote a little morsel of it that I found particularly relevant.

One goes through plenty of chapters in one’s life that means closing the door on a set of past experiences. High school. College. Dating. But with graduation, commencement and marriage the focus is on the bright set of new possibilities that overwhelms the sense of loss over the positive experiences of the past. However, with something like a limiting injury or other realization that progress is curtailed or prospects are remote, there is no explicit ‘positive’ to fill the gap.