How contemplative are you when faced with an existential question?

Life is filled with problems, of course. Some of those problems are just “let’s fix it” problems and some are more long term; perhaps unsolvable. They may require you to change your frame of reference—making lemonade out of lemons, as the saying goes.

Let’s say you’ve been sick for a long time, and you’ve been fighting it. Maybe you end up with permanently changed abilities. Or maybe you are able to recover your abilities, but you have had a very different experience during the time you were sick.

Do you think about this, and try to find a way to incorporate it into who you are? Do you ignore it, and just move on? Do you find yourself saying, “it was meant to be that way?” Do you see it as a blip in the road, best to be forgotten?

How do you make sense out of these kinds of things in life? Do you consciously think about it—“work” on it? Do you just let it go? What?