Grief is so weird, it’s been over 2 years since I’ve lost my uncle to Covid and in the weeks before and months after I kept starting crying at random while at work or driving or grocery shopping, it felt like a never ending river that would often break a dam
It slowly got better and now it hits me less and less, but I am still so mad about how he was taken from us and I think I’ll never be able to think or talk about it without crying, I just think about it less often now
When my Mother passed I cried nearly every day for 3 months. I wasn't even sad most of the time when it happened, it would just come out of nowhere. I somehow managed to never cry in public, but I got close a few times.
This is year 3 after losing my dad and it was a full two years before I could get a handle on the suddenly-bursting-into-tears-out-of-nowhere thing. I've also reached the point of thinking about it less often, but my voice always shakes when I speak a memory of my dad out loud.
It's a scar; it won't ever heal, it will just look and feel different. Sending you hugs and a little bit of peace wherever you are right now.
I feel her on this. My grandmother's first anniversary passing was earlier this month and it's hard to know what to do to honor them or to remember them well. I talk to her all the time tho and I try to honor her by treating myself/my loved ones extra lovingly when possible because she was VERY much the huggy-kissy loving type who loved to laugh. That and when I wear my pink shirts. It's less that I miss old times and more that we keep having new times and new experiences that I just can't truly share with her. Little day to day things or even stuff like how I know she would've LOVED the Barbie movie or laughed at trump getting arrested multiple times. Her laugh and her love of joy are what I think of and while I am grateful to have a phone message of her calling me from a few years ago to hear when I need it OFC it's not the same.
Missing people you love is so hard even when you accept it. You have moments of wanting them - to talk or to see them - and have to remember and just deal with it.
What you wrote about your grandmother and how you feel is really beautiful. It’s times like this where I hope there’s some sort of afterlife so those who have passed can see how much they were/are loved.
I feel very fortunate to not only have had her for so long in my life but for her to have been the kind of person she was. From what I have heard about her own mother/my great grandmother she was a terror to everyone in her/our large family and even talking about her now my mom is afraid at times and so I 1000% think that my grandmother did the work to be as opposite of that as possible and that takes so much strength to do, especially for women of her generation.
"You have moments of wanting them - to talk or to see them - and have to remember and just deal with it." I still feel this when I think of my grandmother and one of my closest friends. Sometimes to tell them about new things and sometimes to fight about old things with them.
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The confusion was so profound that it took months to trust the feeling of joy again.
This is an incredible expression of feeling. I hope Lupita and Chadwick's family are doing well and feeling supported. <3
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It slowly got better and now it hits me less and less, but I am still so mad about how he was taken from us and I think I’ll never be able to think or talk about it without crying, I just think about it less often now
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It's a scar; it won't ever heal, it will just look and feel different. Sending you hugs and a little bit of peace wherever you are right now.
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I still feel sad whenever I watch one of his movies. I rewatched Endgame recently and choked up a bit when Black Panther appeared.
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Missing people you love is so hard even when you accept it. You have moments of wanting them - to talk or to see them - and have to remember and just deal with it.
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I feel very fortunate to not only have had her for so long in my life but for her to have been the kind of person she was. From what I have heard about her own mother/my great grandmother she was a terror to everyone in her/our large family and even talking about her now my mom is afraid at times and so I 1000% think that my grandmother did the work to be as opposite of that as possible and that takes so much strength to do, especially for women of her generation.
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