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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Remembering that happiness comes from within



After the death of my husband who was 27, I was devastated. I was 23 years old then. At the time (more than 40 years ago) there was no such thing as grief counselling and at six months pregnant, I was told to ‘pull myself together’. It was years later while being a Hospice Volunteer that I actually worked through my own grief.

I know that ‘happiness comes from within’ through the Hospice Volunteers training. I read lots of self-help books at that time. This made me realise that ‘a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step’ and that the change must come from me.

Recently, a number of my friends became very sick, and two very closed friends passed away. It had been hard for me to deal with the loss of these friendships.

Remembering that happiness comes from within helped me to keep going in spite of these losses in my life.
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