Lost a Loved One?
I was overcome with emotion. Sadness, also anger, and I was certainly very confused. "Sorry to learn that you lost your father", well-wishers condoled me. Lost your father? What could those words really mean? What does it mean to lose a loved one? How could my father be lost to me? There he had lain before me, his eyes staring into space and his body a little cold. . If his body lay there before me then what had I lost? Oh! Did they mean, I had lost his soul? But his soul, it