Good thoughts on grief, sorrow & loss

Yesterday was another fine day in paradise with little to write about. I did go to the marina bar on the Naval Air Station with some friends for happy hour & that was nice. I'm also nearing the end of True Compass by Edward Kennedy & read something that was very moving & addresses the title above.
In 1958 the elder Joe Kennedy wrote a letter to a friend whose son had died. By this time Joe had lost his oldest son, Joe, Jr., to WWII & his daughter Kathleen to an airplane crash. He wrote: "There are no words to dispel your feelings at this time, and there is no time that will ever dispel them. Nor is it any easier the second time than the first. And yet, I cannot share your grief , because no one could share mine. When one of your children goes out of your life, you think of what he might have done with a few more years, and you wonder what you are going to do with the rest of yours. Then one day, because there is a world to be lived in, you find yourself a part of it again, trying to accomplish something - something he did not have time enough to do. And, perhaps, that is the reason for it all. I hope so."