Journey of a lifetime

Whether u were a 10, 20 or 35 year old, u look back and see that the life lived is a bunch of intermittent memories and that too short lived. At the end of one's life, one wud have the same feeling...that life passed by rather quickly.

Since the journey does not stop with a lifetime, a crisis will pass by giving a new lease to the journey. At the soul-level, the individual shud bear happiness and pain with equanimity...as the sufferings/happiness at the physical level do not last forever. Knowing this, one should be indifferent to the momentary happenings and absorb the experiences only. It would further help if the dependants of the individual understand this fact and also see it as it is, in a detached manner...that it is a passing phase and it needs to be endured.

Contrary to the way u let a child walk knowing that the child might hurt itself, u hav to hand-hold the elders through pain & discomfort as long as they need ur support (again in a detached way, accepting the fact it is only going to get worse). The battle is as long as you r fighting against the inevitable, not accepting the truth. The moment u accept the ultimate truth, u r at peace with urself and ur surroundings and u can support the people who need ur help, in a very detached and unpainful way. At the end of the journey, u shud look back to see that u supported somebody well enough to give them liberation and ... a new lease of life / opportunity. As long as u r attached to the individual, u r not allowing the individual to start a new journey (u r the hindrance) and y wud u want to be that?
If u really love somebody, u let them go...to start a new journey. Knowing this, u give the individual reasons to look fwd beyond the darkness...at the end, wat is left is the love and cherishing moments.

Currently, dont see it as a battle. Accept it as a fact and then do what needs to be done to make the remaining moments more cherishable and carry it out as a duty...
thatz my opinion and hw I wud deal with it. At the end of the chapter, I wud be happy that the loved one has started a new journey somewhere...