Endings will give way to beginnings just as much as beginnings give way to endings. Your ancestors life ended, and yours could begin. Yours will come to an end, and your childs story will take center stage. Even within the course of your life, pieces of you will constantly die offa job will be lost, a relationship will endand, if youre ready, other occupations, loves, will arise in their place. What follows may or may not be better than what came first. But the task is not only to let the past go, but also to transform the pain of impermanence into creativityand transcendence.

Bittersweet by Susan Cain