Whose courage has inspired me? Why?

I met someone for lunch who I had never met before recently. We both had lost a longtime spouse within the last year or so. He said that he rarely talked with anyone outside of immediate family about his loss. In a beautiful setting in the hills overlooking the Pacific, he courageously shared with me the loss of his wife of 46 years to ovarian cancer and the pain and suffering she went through and what he endured. He felt comfortable enough to allow himself to break down and cry. He had been&…I met someone for lunch who I had never met before recently. We both had lost a longtime spouse within the last year or so. He said that he rarely talked with anyone outside of immediate family about his loss. In a beautiful setting in the hills overlooking the Pacific, he courageously shared with me the loss of his wife of 46 years to ovarian cancer and the pain and suffering she went through and what he endured. He felt comfortable enough to allow himself to break down and cry. He had been a courageous caregiver to ‘his love of his life’ and had boxed it all up. And here I was with someone I had only just met, and he honored me by allowing his feelings to finally flow. What courage it takes to see a love one pass to cancer and to love them so completely almost to the exclusion of oneself. I may never see this man again but he left a lasting impression on me of what courage it takes to faithfully commit wholeheartedly to your partner, who’s in excruciating pain and suffering and to do so loving so fully.