Life is full of change.

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One of the most challenging changes is when people leave this world.

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It does not matter if they are a parent, a child, a brother, sister or friend.

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Meeting that change in our lives can be tough.

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When we feel we have lost someone, it always hurts.

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When we can no longer touch them, they are gone to us.

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We struggle to find a way to fill that void.

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Yet nothing can ever replace that unique human being.

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We feel the loss, and it pains us.

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As much as we take consolation in others, it is never the same.

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For the people left behind there is an emptiness.

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And as we grow older, there are more and more people we know that are leaving this world.

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No matter how it happens, it doesn't get any easy.

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Perhaps there is a better way to consider it?

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Maybe we can shift our perspective to take a different view of life and death.

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For as long as we remember the person in our heart, they still live on.

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We may not be able to call them, but we can talk to them whenever we wish.

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Our relationship with them changes and shifts, but it does not end.

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The relationship continues until we transition as well.

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Our hearts are big enough to hold all of the people we love in our lives.

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Our hearts are strong enough to remember and embrace everyone we have lost.

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It does not have to be an end.

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The relationship can transform as well.

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It can grow into something new and different.

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We can finally say all the things we had been thinking but never told them.

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Perhaps we can't hold them with arms anymore.

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Yet we can still hold them in our hearts.

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Love does not know time and space.

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And we can carry our love for those we have lost until the end of our days.

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And who knows what waits on the other side?

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And one thing is for certain.

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With each transition, with each change we experience, we learn to soften.

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To be more gentle with the people around us.

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And appreciate what and who we have all that much more.

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So who have you lost that you still carry in your heart?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant