I'm at work and logged in to see your blog here, Mark, and said to myself "i need to read this now, not later"! So much to reflect upon here, having personally lived this whole recent "failure" of my own life...yes, I must admit I felt "life is over". Failure is so much easier to bear in youth, because there's usually no sense of mortality.....only endless opportunity.

It's a challenge to "take responsibility", rather than to "blame" oneself for "bad" crucial decisions, or even attitudes or false beliefs that led directly to the current situation. For awhile there, the massive self-recriminations were just unbearable (ego), and only added to the practical burdens of "destitution".  Rigorous self-evaluation is necessary,  but with forgiveness, and the knowledge that, apparently, events unfold as need be, for the soul's growth and wisdom. And so many people right now are suffering, that I think this is not only a "personal" crisis, but a mass evolutionary one as well. I have known inside that I would not completely understand what was happening until I was "on the other side". And of course, the faith to believe there would be the "other side."

thanks for this, Mark....we seem to be always "on the same page."