Dear Dimple,

A very close friend of mine lost her 25 year old brother 2 years ago, I’ve always wondered how she and her mother could bounce back into daily routine so quickly, she’s the same person she was before her loss, she still is the one that makes everyone else laugh, I’m not saying that she’s not still mourning or that she’s happy. I’ve always wonders where she’s gotten her strength from and how she’s managing life so well despite such a terrible loss. And she said she finds strength in everyone around her, in me as her friend (I’m always cheering her on, besides she’s given me so much strength in life, she has no idea), her mother that she loves so dearly. She knows she will meet him again, maybe not right now, but in the end they will all meet again.

I guess the only thing in life you can ever have fully control of is your mind, but unfortunately the mind is well controlled by the heart, emotions can bring us to the happiest in life and they can break us so terribly. I found an old quote I always go back to where life gets tough, “Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how we react to it”, not that that’s easy to apply in ones life when you have lost such a dear person to you, your daughter. But the only thing life can guarantee us is the power and will we make to control our mind, because there will be things that happens to us and we can only let it defeat us or somehow keep living life, for others that you are dear to, for those who love you, for those who find strength in you. You are dear to many others, find strength in them, or perhaps in a stranger like me who finds strength in you for being able to write this here on a forum when it just happen so recently. Nothing is of guarantee in life only our own strength.