Jeff Mara interviewed author and spiritual mystic Hans Wilhelm on his podcast, and Wilhelm had this to say:
"If you have a wonderful pet [like a] dog...and you love that dog more than anything else, you cannot take that dog to college, even if it would be a comfort dog. So, no, there is a reason why you suddenly go to college away from the comfort of your family, and suddenly facing all the new life totally on your own. To grow, we have to be away on our own here, because the path is a path within..."
I think I might have mentioned in a previous post -- when our loved ones leave this world, it's almost like they're "graduating" from this earthly life. I think of how parents sometimes cry when their children graduate from school, because it's the end of a major life chapter for everyone involved. And I think of how we cannot join our loved ones after they've died, at least not for a while, anyway. And it can be really hard.
But I think how I've reunited with friends from school -- some of whom I hadn't been in contact with for many years after graduation. And when we do meet again, it feels like we "picked up right where we left off," in spite of the passage of time. I wonder if it will feel that way again when we leave this world to join our loved ones who have gone on before us...
