Bittersweet

"Endings will give way to beginnings just as much as beginnings give way to endings.  Your ancestor's life ended, and yours could begin.  Yours will come to an end, and your child's story will take center stage.  Even within the course of your life, pieces of you will constantly die off - a job will be lost, a relationship will end - and, if you are ready, other occupations, loves, will arise in their place.  What follows may not be 'better' than what came first.  But the task is not only to let the past go, but also to transform the pain of impermanence into creativity - and transcendence."

Susan Cain, Bittersweet