The Pain of Life Changes

My mother passed on Monday, September 05, 2022.

I don’t write for circumstances, but solace from them.

Grief came to me, my family, and her friends like a vicious knife; sudden, terrifying, painful, and penetrating— Creating wounds that will take a very long time to heal. Grief is an intense emotion, all encompassing of the different pain and sorrow we feel after a heavy personal loss. Degrees of emotion vary from person to person and almost always runs the same course.

Initial Shock

A Time of Uncontrollable Weeping

A Sense of Guilt and Regret

The Period of Healing

Death is a huge life change. My mother is no longer in our lives, at least not in the same way, but just as painfully— we are not the same now that she is gone.

A widower instead of a husband and siblings without their mother.

Rest.

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