Stories
Apparently, in addition to the phantom kicks I’ve been getting the past 6 months, I now also get phantom rib aches. Late at night, laying on my back in bed, by right ribs started aching sharply… right where Devin lodged his feet at the end. I rubbed the area absently to help it go away, but at the same time… I didn’t really mind the reminder.
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I don’t know how many of you read the comic strip For Better Or For Worse, but the storyline just ended. Today’s strip was tying up loose ends. What struck me right away was how, of course, Elizabeth’s epilogue included a baby. Don’t they all end that way? “… and they welcomed a new baby and lived happily ever after.” I guess it wouldn’t really work too well to have an epilogue that read something like, “And after 2 years of infertility treatments they finally got pregnant, only for their son to die.” It strikes me quite often how infrequently books and stories are actually like real life.
But then again, my story isn’t over yet.
I was sad to read the end of it.
I do have to say, by in large Lynn Johnston has done a good job of portraying a world that isn’t sunshine and roses.
I wrote about that comic strip too (for Mel’s Show and Tell). I do like happy endings. I think for me I hear and read about enough sadness and for once I want to see everything work out. I guess too because I’m still waiting for my happy ending.
No your story isn’t over yet!!!
Someone else has the quote on their blog: “It all gets worked out in the end. If it’s not worked out, it’s not the end.” I rather like that. It doesn’t imply we’ll get the ending we WANT but just that we’ll somehow figure out how to muddle through it.
Exactly, your story is far from over! Devin is a very important part of the story, but not the end. He was the beginning of your story of motherhood.
Have you seen or read The Secret? The main focus or advice it gives it to imagine your story/comic strip as you would like it to be. Think about how excited you’ll be when the pregnancy test is positive! Will you take the test over and over just to see it turn color again? How might you memorialize Devin in your lives so that baby 2 grows up with love for him too? I give you this advice in the hope I take it for myself…