a temporary goodbye
To my JF youth, As you age and grow up, you learn that life is hard. People do not tell you, but you need to learn how to manage your time wisely. You need to learn how to enroll yourself in post-secondary courses. You need to learn how to please your boss and maintain peace with your colleagues. When you get married, you need to learn how to pay your bills and compromise with your spouse. The overwhelming responsibilities and expectations may be written in a dusty book that could be found in your local library, but there is often one that we forget. When you grow up, you need to learn how to come to terms with death. You will need to go to funerals, watch wooden caskets lowered into the cold ground and listen to eulogies. That is the reality of the world. Life is filled with peaks of joy, success and happiness, but also scattered with moments of brokenness, sadness and loss. I know you are all learning to comprehend the loss of this young brother. As a counsellor, I just wanted