One of the things I realized early on this journey was that I did not possess the vocabulary for the deep pain, unbearable sorrow and relentless longing I was experiencing.
So I sought out quotes, fellow travelers and groups of others who shared this awful path.
It helped.
It didn’t take away the pain but it gave me words to express it. It gave me courage to believe I could survive it.
I will never forget those who chose to come back with a torch in the dark and light the way.
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There are so many ways to describe grief.
So many ways individual hearts walk this path.
For many of us there’s a sense of being locked in time, stuck in space, unable to leave the moment one received the news or the few days before and after.
It’s maddening that the earth still turns, the sun still rises and people go on with life when in so many ways our world is frozen in place.
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Thank you Melanie I am 8 months into this terrible tragedy of losing my my son as I also lost a son in 1985. Jimmy was all I had left in this world.
This journey is difficult in a different way. He left 2 sons and a wife. We are all grieving differently. Trying to live on as he would want never forgetting the wonderful loving human being he was who now lives in a spiritual world and praying to that we will all be together again.
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