There and Back, #5

[mkultra]

Hey Morgan, I know I use movie plot lines too much, but I am a film major now. In the British movie Love , Actually, the grieving step father tries to console his melancholy stepson who has recently lost his mother to cancer. The father has no idea how to shake him from his grief. But it is not about the cancer or the funeral at all. The boy is in love, unrequitted love, plus the love interest is moving. The father is so relieved that it is love causing his depression. And the boy asks, "What could be more painful than the utter agony of being in love?"

So, yeah, we should not feel guilty about being in agony. Death is swifter to get over. (Death of a child, no.) But love sucks.

Our kids are healthy so the rest is just cake. If we fall back in love, bonus. We cannot trade anything for having healthy kids.