Losing someone you love is indescribable. Nothing can prepare you for the emotions that follow the death of a loved one. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve known, how “prepared” you think you are; the emotions are going to sneak up out of the blue and smack you right in the face. It’s been a year and two months since losing my grandmother and sometimes it feels like she was just here yesterday. I wish I could call her, tell her about my day, ask her advice. I miss the littlest things. What I wouldn’t give to hold her hand, to hear her laugh.
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One thing I learned from her death was how capable I am. I really thought that once she was gone, I was going to become nothing. I didn’t think my life would go on. I felt that I couldn’t function without her. I didn’t know what I was going to do with myself. I actually handled it pretty well, overall.
The hardest time was probably the day before she died. I just knew it was coming soon and had this overwhelming guilt that I never got to say goodbye and thought about all the time I wasn’t with her, when I could have been. It’s been a long, hard road but at the end of the day, I know I can’t obsess over it too much because my life has to go on. I know that’s what she would want of me.