And even years later, when you’ve learned to live with it and you think you’re doing fine, one day, all of a sudden, the grief will come back and wash over you and overwhelm you again. Usually it fades as quickly as it showed up, but it’s always there under the surface waiting for the odd moment to come back, to wash over your day. Today is one of those days.
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Lessons From A Funeral
I used to just assume that most people understood and knew the good in themselves. I didn’t tell people I saw their awesomeness, their worth, their beauty, because I thought it was obvious. Now I know it isn’t. Not to them, anyway. Even a person you look up to, a person you see as successful & confident (so obviously, they’d know their own awesomeness, right?), doesn’t necessarily see what you see.
You should tell them what you see.
Spilled Words & Anxious Daydreams 