LOVE WILL RETURN – A SHORT STORY

I read a powerful short story earlier this week from the famous writer Franz Kafka and wanted to share it in this week’s newsletter…

Kafka was walking through a park in Berlin in the 1920s. This was his daily walking route, but today took a different turn as he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll.

To calm her down Franz helped her look for the doll. Eventually, realising that they would not find it, he told the little girl that the doll was probably away on a trip but that she should not worry, as he was a postman and the doll would have sent her a letter. He arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot, to deliver the letter.

When they met the next day, he read her the letter from the doll. “Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.”

This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her the carefully composed letters of the adventures of the beloved doll. For three weeks Kafka focused exclusively on the doll’s letters and handed them on to the girl every day. When the meetings came to an end, he presented her with the doll saying she had returned! She obviously looked different from the original doll, but an attached letter explained: “My travels have changed me… “

Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into a previously unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary, it said: “Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

The message of this story to me is that when we have a loss in our lives the healing is to look for how love comes back in another form.

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