Love Shack...built of cards

A Grief Observed was a heavy reading, but I enjoyed it, if that's possible. In many ways I was able to relate or see where he was coming from. I have never had someone close to be pass away, but I have been through bad break ups, or loss of friendship.
Yesterday in class I found it very interesting that we build card houses, well tried to. It helped me understand better what he was saying. I have hear the phrase "a house of cards" before, but I had never really stopped to think about it. I liked where Lewis says," if my house was a house of cards, the sooner it was knocked down the better." There are many ways to take this, but the way I see it is that while we were trying to build that house with cards we were so nervous. The cards would shake and we would have to be so careful around them. It's like we were afraid to do anything. We were always worried the next move would send it crashing down. Why would you want a love, house, or family built like that. It's like you would never be able to move forward, because you would be too afraid to mess things up. We were meant to have solid foundations.
I like being able to brings topics out of the story and do an activity with them to help better understand what the author is saying. I am not much of a DEEP thinker. I like things clear cut and all out in the open. In my opinion if you are going to say something just put it all out there, but if literature were that way if would probably be more boring. So, this activity really helped me out, and I definitely enjoyed it.