Sharing a Saying

When I was little, I hated going to the doctor and would run from my parents when I knew I was about to go for a shot.  My father once told me that it would soon be just a memory.  The idea didn't help me at the time but I learned something that has helped me through many bad situations throughout my life.  It can be said in any number of ways: "Tomorrow is another day", "This too will pass", or as Oprah says it, "The sun is pretty sure to turn up tomorrow."  But none of these suit me better than what my father said.  So many of my physically and emotionally painful times I got through by remembering that before long the pain would just be a memory.  I still miss people I've lost along the way but the intensity of the loss lessens and the loss itself becomes "just a memory". My Dad died when I was ten, but he managed to give several things like this saying that have helped me cope.