Time

Time -- friend or foe of a healing heart?

Friend. When reason erodes to emotion, justifications sound like tracks on a broken record and you've lost your way down memory lane, know that time will relieve you. One day you'll outgrow this helpless state of mind, and you'll have time to thank.

Foe. The delayed gratification time promises means nothing in the present. Tell the one drowning in emotion, repeating broken justifications and lost down memory lane that at some indefinite time in the future, you'll be better...but for now, get comfortable. All you can do is wait.

Perhaps that makes time the greatest frenemy you'll ever know. For better or worse, it's all you have.