Life goes on...time marches on...
This is what we face.
Because yes, life does go on; the clock never stops ticking, the sands never stop falling, and we have to stop wallowing and move on...
The world around us keeps going, at its own predictable mundane pace, and it's so easy to just drown ourselves in it - just run that easy pace...Left, right, left, right...just keep moving and it'll all go away.
7 am....kids are getting up; time for for work; time for school..regardless of your place in life, there's still a pace...a comfortable cycle you can bury yourself in and hide from what really matters. Kids need food, diapers, juice, attention...Time for work - work, break, work, lunch, work some more...Time for school - bell, class, bell, class, bell, lunch - just gotta make it through the day. It's all sorted out for you. Then home...another routine. Homework, dinner, showers, bed.... and then it starts all over again.
Amongst it all, you lose track of YOU. It's so easy to just envelop yourself in the sheer routine-ness of it and forget that anything ever happened to you. Well no, you don't forget - you can never forget, but you don't want to admit that it's still eating at you because that would equal defeat. And dammit, you WON'T accept defeat over this.
So, you live your life, and watch the sands slip through the hourglass, and someday...maybe someday...those tiny pieces of glass will finally somehow make their way to the bottom and fade away forever....
