Spring... Easter, warm weather, and flowers blooming all over creation! An occurrence last Spring led me to a profound insight.

I'm at the airport and minutes away from boarding a flight to New York. Hopping down the long airport hallway is a young lady with a deeply pained look on her face. She is on crutches, not the kind you often see for a broken leg, the kind that you use with your wrists. This young lady is missing her right leg, not a little, like above the knee, or halfway above the knee. She is missing ALL of her right leg. She is wearing black tights and it is apparent that her leg has been severed, right across the top.

A Tiny Ray of Sunshine?

She is too young to have been in the military. Her left leg is toned, athletic, and shapely. You easily can tell that she was/is some type of athlete: in skiing, soccer, maybe track and field. I'm guessing she's between the ages of 18 and 20, perhaps 22 at the most.

She is "model" beautiful, a combination of a young Kim Basinger and a young Michelle Pfeiffer. The expression on her face tells me that she has not been in this condition long and has not done a lot of traveling as of late. I sense that this is her first airport trip, alone, since the operation.

While everyone else in the airport ‘manages’ to not notice her, I decide I will look straight at her and smile. As she passes, however, she is forward-focused. She does not see me...  or maybe, peripherally, she does. Subconsciously, maybe, she receives it – one tiny ray of sunshine in a world of utter despair. While she didn’t appear to notice, I hope perhaps some minute level of cosmic healing occurred.

The Shock, and the Horror

I surmise that she had bone cancer. I mentally........

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