Life passes peacefully, and then something bad happens. A town floods, a loved one dies, one's dignity is violated. We feel lost, betrayed, angry that we have suffered this loss.
Then comes the slow process of recovery. Recovery doesn't come quickly; we must go through the feelings that come with loss, the anger and the sadness and the fear. There's no going through this quickly. We can't recover from someone else's timetable.
When we recover from a catastrophic event, we do not return to normal. That place is gone, destroyed by the event. We journey to a new normal, a normal where the event fades into memory and its changes to our lives are reconciled with the past.
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