Perhaps the essence of this piece--for those of us who've traveled similar experiences--is "allowance," a gift of acceptance most resist. To welcome that which seems foreign and unwanted is to feel and think on that which would not have been possible without such a happening. And, because it is arguable that there are no happenings without the input of the experiencer's consciousness, victimization becomes a very moot element of such an argument. Nothing happens to us. We create all our own reality, in so much as an experience is nothing (does not exist) if not an ingestion of sensorial response by someone who then either intelligently embraces it as part of a learning process, or ignorantly rejects it as something that invaded their space. For some of us, the choice of interpretation is obviously apparent. For others, well, as I stated above, ignorance and resistance are psyche-buddies.

What else can we do but shuffle on. So relevant.
L