A Conversation with the Universe on Surrender

I said to the universe, “I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to watch someone die, I don’t know how to help someone die, I don’t know how to let go. I don’t know how to do this.”

She whispered back, “no one does.”

I argued with her in frustration.

I asked, “Why isn’t there a manual, a guidebook or something on how to do this?