Trudging separately and together...

Once I understood that I must wrestle with the real enemy–time, aging, death–then I came to realize that Mathilde is neither adversary or rescuer, but simply a fellow traveler trudging through the cycle of life.’ To see your partner in this deceptively simple way, Yalom believes, is to open the door to meaning and happiness in a world without guarantees of either.”

                                                                                       Irving Yalom, Love’s Executioner