gift

In logical terms, it seems that loss should result in less. The exception would lie in the mistake of accounting - of what had been accounted for at the time prior to loss. It is in some rare cases that the experience of loss results not in less, but more; it is the most painful and illogical kind. This kind of a loss works to disintegrate any expectation of what one did or did not have in the first place. It renders a harsh realization that one had been left with everything and more, that the account of normalcy prior had been false. The guise of normalcy, rather, had been diligently produced second by second, nearly to a billion, to form a kind of quiet immensity, incomparable in value. In spite of expectations, a person is left with unimaginably more.