We all have experienced peak life moments that can cause a cascade of emotions. These life changing intense aha experiences can’t be ordered or planned, but involve instant insight that is deeply meaningful. Every several years he’d stay a few days in the hospital, but this time it was different, he was dying, and he was angry. He’d been estranged from his son for years, and as his son waited outside with tears and a remorseful heart, as he told us, “I have no son”. His son waited until he died to finally stand by his bed and tell him how much he loved him, and how far away that angry little boy was today. My hospice work gave me several peak life moments, and this was one. Angry moments held too long holdout love, and “life without love, is no life at all”.
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