Do you ever miss it?

[houseofcantor]

Just remember that pain is temporary.

What comforts me a little when I lose someone I love is trying to remember, even writing down all the things that person taught me. Then I try to teach someone else something I learned from them whenever I have the opportunity. This gives people their immortality. Have faith in yourself that you're strong enough to bear this, and in time your weaknesses will be wisdom, and possibly strength.

If we love someone, they will live as long as we do.

All the better for my not saying it.

The first time I saw my father was in a casket, my mother passed from bone cancer; I watched my grandfather fade from stroke. I don't remember so much as crying. A week ago we were gathered in the hangout for the passing of the Hitch, that seems to have affected me more than my relations; that because I was angry. I come across as cold in the face of grief; not because I do not care, or I lack sympathy, but rather because I use a different form of mathematics. Nothing is lost.

All that faith gives the faithful is the shared identity of god. The only meaningful equivalence of that identity is god=love. Lose the agency and the idolatry; can not an atheist have faith in love? I'm thinking, yes.