Headspace Studios.

Hey friends, it's Rosie here.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday.

A few nights ago, I was sitting on our front porch with Tori,

looking at the sky, thinking about everything that's happened.

And I asked him,

do you think there's any reason for this?

Any meaning to all of this loss?

And he sat there for a long time before saying,

I don't know.

We've spent this week talking about loss,

about the shock of it, the grief,

the slow process of rebuilding.

But today, I want to talk about something that comes much later.

The question that lingers after the dust settles, how do we

find meaning in whatever we've been through? After he said that, it really stuck with me. I began to

think how meaning sometimes involves us making a choice. Meaning isn't something we find. It's something we make, right? We can go 30 days

without food, three days without water, and about 30 seconds before attaching meaning to something.

It's just how we're wired. We take the broken pieces, the things we never asked for, and we decide what

to do with them. My Aolita knew this well. She'd always tell me, when the life

to runpe, my ha, you decide if you're quads in pedasos or if you're going to make

a time. When life breaks you, you decide whether to stay in pieces or to keep moving forward.

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