You leave something good behind

The breakable heart, my rabbi, and the unanswerable

“Travel isn’t always pretty,” Bourdain said. “It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

My rabbi, in another season, about a million years ago, once told me, “Those who don’t have a problem getting through life will never fully understand those who do.”