Mom died fifty-two months ago today. The great hero of my life, I think of her and I miss her daily. Some days it feels to me as if she was here just yesterday. Others? It feels as if she has been gone for a lifetime.
In the aftermath of the death of one we love and one who loved us, we have just two options.
Option One: We collapse into a gelatinous mass of hurt and self-pity, doing a disservice to ourselves and to their memory.
Option Two: We soldier on. We acknowledge the punch to the heart that Life has delivered to us, we pick ourselves up, we dust ourselves off, and we keep on keeping on, honoring our loved one's memory and repaying the debt we owe to them by living our life.
Spoiler alert: There is really only one option.
We remember but we do not dwell. We mourn but we do not wallow. It is by doing so and in doing so that we pay homage to a loved one lost...
Forever loved. Forever missed. Forever honored.
-AK
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