Denial

There is in all of us a desire to improve or at least maintain. In college I learned that one of the five stages of grieving is denial. As an interpreter I ran into this issue head on with a late deafened individual. In a role reversal from what is normally seen with an infant or toddler diagnosis, the family accepted that their relative would be Deaf. The individual refused to accept it. In spite of doctors, therapist, experts, family, and friends their resolve was unshaken. Being a Christian I am used to seeing someone wait for the 'Lord's report' before accepting the doctors verdict. Healing is generally the rule, not the exception for most of my friends. This denial was not based on an understanding of God's power, but was simply an unwillingness to accept the facts presented. I was and still am baffled. This post isn't about how I learned some truth about life. I just wanted to share that people are human and will not always behave in what the observer would percieve to be a logical way. Bet some of you already knew that, but it still puzzles me.