I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. I understand the jubilation of falling in love, and I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.

I've felt all of those things before in my own life. We all do, sooner or later.

But pain is also what imbues things with meaning. All of the greatest human stories are about suffering and how we as humans respond to it. That's why it puts a pep in my step - because it's meaningful, provocative, evocative, and inspiritational.

Life would be dull without loss.

It's a radical perspective maybe, and maybe even an irrational one, but hey - it works for me!