Here is where we must be careful. Grief has a seductive gravity. It is easy to lie down among the fallen and refuse to rise. To say, "Look at all that has been lost. What is the point of building?"
The soldier who fell in the Ardennes did not charge the line so that you would spend your life in a fetal position. The friendship that fell taught you something about loyalty. The species that went extinct is a warning, not an invitation to give up on conservation. all the fallen
But if you look closely at the world around you—at the forests, the history books, and the corners of your own memory—you realize that the world is built on the backs of all the fallen. Here is where we must be careful
There is a strange, quiet magic in the act of falling. We are taught from a young age to fear it. "Don't fall," we are told. "Stand tall. Keep your chin up." To fall is to fail. It is to lose balance, to lose status, to lose the fight. To say, "Look at all that has been lost