Surgery

I have become acquainted with surgery in recent years. An acquaintance I would have gladly avoided. The advancements in surgery have helped me to an extent. However, they have also caused me to reflect on my powerlessness over the deterioration of my own body. This is the greater benefit. I am learning to truly accept what I truly am. I am a finite and physically vulnerable living being. Learning to accept this with heartfelt peace, not mournful resignation, has been one of my greatest accomplishments. I never thought, in my troubled youth, that I would ever achieve such personal peace. Part of my practice is to share this sense of peace in hope that it will ease the fear of aging and death for others.