The shirt I last saw my beloved brother in
It’s been a little over 2 years that my mother had passed and a little over a year and half of my brother’s homicide. It seems so long ago and yet, seems just like yesterday. I had thought by now that I would pass the stage of disbelief, shock, and all those other stages that come with grief. I’ve done pretty well at holding myself together and doing it with my head held high. It had seemed for the pass few days, those days when I had loss my mother and brother had flashed back right before my eyes! Why was this? It’s been 2 years and a year and half! I should be pass this, right? Could it be because I had to take the kids back to school shopping without my mother? Was it because I cleaned my closet and came across the shirt I last saw my brother in? Our was just because they had been apart of my life for so many years, and now it’s different? Whatever the reason was, it hit once again! The pass few nights were sleepless ones and the days of questioning. Why? Then it came to me, it’s because that’s what grieving does! Grieving doesn’t last a day,a month, or even a year! It last forever! You know why? Because the love you felt for that lost loved one/ones, last forever! Does it get better? Yes, it does, but very different. And, with that, I’ve come to understand that I am always going to grieve the loss of my mother and brother, and that’s okay. It’s the roller coaster we call life, and your roller coaster ride makes you the person you are to be.
National Grief Awareness Day
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