Ben, all respect and very sorry for your loss and the hard experiences you've been through. Writing about it on this post can release a lot of emotions. I'm glad you found the courage to write about it. And if it helps to write more, your audience is here to read. We are here to read!
Ben, I hope this break is everything you hope for and need. It is hard to move on from such trauma but your positive spirit and enviable energy are already helping you put things in perspective. Congratulations to you and your wife on 40 years together, a milestone to be celebrated.
Safe travels, my friend. I will try to catch-up on your incredible writing in your absence.
Creativity is a great place to retreat from the world and slowly process all that has happened in the world. (I also totally second the benefits of therapy!) I am just back from a month-long holiday … fortunately I went somewhere where I could pop into Notes and my Inbox to see what was what but couldn’t do a lot of reading … I did write a bit here and there, but it was good to absorb new experiences etc. Have a great time exploring Europe and come home safely.
A fact; sometimes, life sucks and the only positive in tragedy as yours in what you assume to be 20 yrs. to creat your worth, is knowing someday we will again be freed from this water sack to let our spirits roam and will again be reunited with that felt as love lost.
Can recall a year ago when you shared your anniversary and it was a happy day. Getting away from the computer is a great thing; to actually begin again to live in the reality of the real world. Have no doubts your marriage will be renewed and your imagination fed towards re-genesis.
Funny...How we can awaken to an anniversary to celebrate 40 years of life and love; not that either or both are the same. But, after leaving and returning home; can find we're another person; reborn.
Don't know if anybody has mentioned; or your wife has shared...In a way; God's gift to you through all the pain of self-recrimination involving the accident of your friend as well as grief which is really love remaining that can no longer be shared...Has been the conscious unmasking of the depths and wisdom within yourself. Don't know what it is and it's never wise to guess about God; but it appears there's been contained within you something God wishes you to say or some work He's planned for you to do. The gift is the knowing of a lifetime along with the necessity of placing you in front of the computer in another world momentarily....Can only result in digging through the depths as an onion until finding yourself new. You're adventuring through the only known 'Fountain of Youth' on Earth.
You ARE a creative and I'm happy you're embracing that with both arms. It's so sad about your friend. Something like that takes so much out of us. I'm sending you a virtual hug.
I'd really like to know what that app is. I've been wanting to play with animation, which is sort of the same, I guess.
Thanks so much for this background, Ben. I am so sorry you lost your good friend. They are hard to come by and you will miss him forever. I look forward to experiencing your newest works. You are a hell of a writer.
Ben, all respect and very sorry for your loss and the hard experiences you've been through. Writing about it on this post can release a lot of emotions. I'm glad you found the courage to write about it. And if it helps to write more, your audience is here to read. We are here to read!
I second that. Writing releases our demons. I suspect it is a primary reason why most of write.
Either that or managing things or both. Writing is therapeutic and healing an it gives peace of mind.
Even if no one reads it but yourself.
I'll be there to read your stories when you come back....
Ben, I hope this break is everything you hope for and need. It is hard to move on from such trauma but your positive spirit and enviable energy are already helping you put things in perspective. Congratulations to you and your wife on 40 years together, a milestone to be celebrated.
Safe travels, my friend. I will try to catch-up on your incredible writing in your absence.
Keep on keeping on!
Have a wonderful, inspiring trip :-)
Creativity is a great place to retreat from the world and slowly process all that has happened in the world. (I also totally second the benefits of therapy!) I am just back from a month-long holiday … fortunately I went somewhere where I could pop into Notes and my Inbox to see what was what but couldn’t do a lot of reading … I did write a bit here and there, but it was good to absorb new experiences etc. Have a great time exploring Europe and come home safely.
A fact; sometimes, life sucks and the only positive in tragedy as yours in what you assume to be 20 yrs. to creat your worth, is knowing someday we will again be freed from this water sack to let our spirits roam and will again be reunited with that felt as love lost.
Can recall a year ago when you shared your anniversary and it was a happy day. Getting away from the computer is a great thing; to actually begin again to live in the reality of the real world. Have no doubts your marriage will be renewed and your imagination fed towards re-genesis.
Funny...How we can awaken to an anniversary to celebrate 40 years of life and love; not that either or both are the same. But, after leaving and returning home; can find we're another person; reborn.
Don't know if anybody has mentioned; or your wife has shared...In a way; God's gift to you through all the pain of self-recrimination involving the accident of your friend as well as grief which is really love remaining that can no longer be shared...Has been the conscious unmasking of the depths and wisdom within yourself. Don't know what it is and it's never wise to guess about God; but it appears there's been contained within you something God wishes you to say or some work He's planned for you to do. The gift is the knowing of a lifetime along with the necessity of placing you in front of the computer in another world momentarily....Can only result in digging through the depths as an onion until finding yourself new. You're adventuring through the only known 'Fountain of Youth' on Earth.
You ARE a creative and I'm happy you're embracing that with both arms. It's so sad about your friend. Something like that takes so much out of us. I'm sending you a virtual hug.
I'd really like to know what that app is. I've been wanting to play with animation, which is sort of the same, I guess.
Thanks so much for this background, Ben. I am so sorry you lost your good friend. They are hard to come by and you will miss him forever. I look forward to experiencing your newest works. You are a hell of a writer.