Loss – Page 3 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

How I lost my anger.

I learned the art of not becoming angry at a high price. Nothing is free and even less the lessons we learn. When we change it isn’t normally because we will ourselves to. Change comes about from either a traumatic experience or one that shatters our core so much that we are forever changed. In my […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Life: a constant series of “goodbyes.”

Probably the toughest lesson life teaches us is that of letting go of people and things. We don’t realize life is a series of constant “goodbyes,” until we experience the most painful one. The one that transforms you, that makes you realize how fragile life is and that nothing and nobody stays in our lives […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

On not giving up

I recently watched Out of Africa again. It was first released in 1985 and back then, I saw it as a love story, now, all these years later as many other things, I saw it from a different place and perspective. It’s not about love anymore for me, it’s about courage and not giving up.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Motherless daughters.

I have no recollection of my mother the years before I left the United States at the age of three. I only remember parts of the flight to Madrid and entering what would be my home for the next couple of decades. My grandmother and grandfather greeted us, and I can still hear my grandmother shout “¡Dios mio!” […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

“Mystify” The last song before tragedy struck.

There are songs and tunes that take us back in time and mark our lives. That was the case this morning when a friend shared a song, a beautiful song, which I will forever link to a tragic story; my boyfriend’s and my own close call with death, and the real death that took place […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

It could be worse, you may not see a sunrise again.

Now, when I’m faced with some sort of hardship since my friend passed, I always go back to that time when he slipped away in my hands. Nothing, after that, can be as bad. I use this “loss” to gauge many of my feelings now, whether it be anger, sadness or loneliness. “It could be worse, I […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

When things go South, start walking North.

You: I’m actually happy right now! Life: Wait a second! And this is how it was for me in late January and to boot, on January 13th. Things went south and then south again… But I was able somehow to keep it together by walking north.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Thanksgiving: The year of loss, love and hope.

I don’t think being grateful is something we are wired to feel now. There is this ingrained sense of entitlement and the belief that somehow life owes us. We seem to acquire, somewhere along the way, the same tunnel vision and selfishness as when we are infatuated and only see what we want to see, […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Why we should be glad to experience pain.

There is a time to laugh, a time to cry, a time to love and a time to grieve. There is no avoiding any of them. They are the balance of life, which we all must experience whether we like it, or not.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Finding your balance and HOPE before 2016.

Now, nearing 2016 is the time to start counting your blessings, no matter hard your year was there is always that side to everything that brought you some good. There is that balance in life that keeps us looking up when everything seemed to go down in shambles. Chaos is part of life and somehow […]