I always do my best to reframe any bad situation. Jerry wouldn't have it any other way. So check this out, it may help ...

I recently discovered the Yap! forums on the Mutts commics website, shortly before their apparent demise. The Yap! is shutting down and the moderator had the following final post for members. It's so elequent I just had to share, one could relate it to any serious loss …

This is the end of a lot of significant things going on in my life right now. I could roll off a list of things, but instead I’m just going to discuss the concept of the end.

Some call it the Apocalypse and others panic. I, however, prefer the way that Dr. Seuss puts it:

“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

He says that we should rejoice because we had the opportunity to experience these things. Sometimes, the end is a new beginning. It sounds very cliché, but it is true—how many things has one learned through something else? If the end weren’t a new beginning, we wouldn’t have a thought process. This is an insight to what’s going on in our lives.

We will make this right. We in ourselves have the power to create alternatives, among other things, when the rocks in our lives are shaken. They fall and are no longer there to support us—they are instantaneous for a moment, quavering in midair, as we fall with them, trying to grip to them in despair. However, then we set our sights on something new. And we realize that the other elements of your life are still there… someone to hug you, a furry friend to love you, a stuffed animal from when you were two years old that you still secretly sleep with. While other things become modernized, such as décor, or clothing, or design; the way you draw, perhaps, or the speed at which you read a book. Maybe your taste in books. But, while these other things are modernized, there are still the old-fashioned things that you can come to when you are in need of comfort and solace.

True, some very large things, or even other beings, sometimes fall out when you look to them in times of need. This is when we experience our greatest downfall, because people are so gripped to the object that they forget to look up and see what is right in front of them. They forget to see the new doors and pathways that the rocks have given way to, revealed as they fell away. Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise. Or, but rarely, the fallout is only temporary and the rocks simply find a new place to rest.

But, as this happens not oft, it is essential to look to what is right in front of you. Believe in the blessing in disguise and always be hopeful.

Of course, these optimistic words are impossible to be true to all of the time. It is impossible to be hopeful and look for new beginnings when the very earth on which you are standing seems as though it has crashed through a hole in the middle of nowhere. It is impossible to see what is right in front of you when you have lost something, because you cannot bear to tear your eyes way from it.

But, philosophies will always be true in some aspects. That is why it is also important to listen to the words of others.

You have been given the great and priceless opportunity to see something absolutely astounding. If citizens of another world in another planet in another galaxy were to come to look and see what we have here, think of how breathtaking our place would be to them. It would be simply amazing. However, not all of us have had the realization that this world needs to be enjoyed. I know many who have, however. So how?

See above. I am again going to state the words of Dr. Seuss:

“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”