When there is a sudden disaster at family and when we are struggling to cope with the enormous loss, we generally don't realize that the incident actually makes us stronger and wiser.
Stronger because we suddenly grow older...much older than we actually are to take up some responsibilities that we would have never taken otherwise, we speak so many things that we would have never have spoken otherwise, we do so many things that we would have never have done otherwise.
Wiser because at the stage of ultimate grief, ultimate responsibility and of ultimate madness, we get to see the true faces of people.....whcih we would have never have seen otherwise...and which is priceless.
I have gone through this experience twice in my life - when I lost my father in Jan, 2010 and recently when I lost my uncle.
When my father passed away after a long suffering, I remember what nasty faces I had discovered of the people near me at that time. The true identity of theirs that I had discovered at that time has given me a base to decide for the most difficult decision of my life.
