Lately I've been thinking about something that one of our members brought up several months ago. In one of her posts, our dear Jackie said that she believed that those of us who had relinquished our babies had chosen between lifetimes to do this, in order to learn an important lesson in life...think reincarnation. I can't remember her exact words, but I know that it just felt "right" to me when I read them.
My question to all birth/first mothers, do you think it's possible that we "choose" to go on this particular journey before we are even born? If so, what have you learned so far? Have you learned a major life lesson? How has relinquishment affected you deep down inside? How has it changed you? Have you learned anything in particular that most people aren't aware of? Something that you wouldn't have learned unless you were separated from your child? Does grief and tremendous loss teach us as human beings? Does it have the potential to make us grow as people?
I guess I'm feeling kind of mystical today...
