What we do with our brain matters

Sometimes, the hardest thing to do after something strikes us is to deal with our thoughts.

And what we do with our thoughts really, really matters because it impacts our future experience.

We have the option of feeling sorry for ourselves playing victim.
We can run revenge scenarios.
We can fake happy and deny it ever happened.

Or we can mourn whatever was lost, sit with the pain, and realize that whatever evil touches us does not diminish the good.

Darkness never eradicates light.  It is the other way around.