Here’s something I’ve learned over the last 11 years, and especially over the last 6 months – feeling sad after someone dies is not one long stretch of sad.
There are moments from the time when that person died until the present moment when you’ll laugh and feel extremely happy and everything will be good. But then, just as quickly as the happy came, there will be the sad.
Something in your real world will trigger a memory. A song will play that’ll just take you back. Or, you’ll just feel sad because it’s Thursday and that’s how the cards fell.
Here’s something else I’m in the process of learning: you owe it to yourself to let the sad be what it needs to be.
It’s not bad to feel sad. It doesn’t make you any less strong, if anything it makes you all the more human.
Let this post serve as a reminder for you…and for me.
