The past year I have had a life changing event happen, I lost my mom. I was not prepared at all, I mean how could you? Whether you got to say goodbye or not you can never fully prepare for such a loss. I am no expert on grief. Honestly I have pushed it away. I have a box. In that box it is filled with pictures of me and my mom, letters I wrote to her and she wrote to me and old tickets to football games we went too. I only open this box when I want to grief, other days it sits in the back of my closet. I do not recommend this. I want to learn how to grief, and to stop putting all of my sadness in a box tucked away in my closet, and I want you to as well if you our on a journey through some type of grief. Maybe start by taking that box out and leaving it out longer than a hour, listening to a song, watching a movie, writing how you feel, or just simply allowing yourself to cry maybe even scream. I like to pray. Pray to God and ask him to provide me with comfort. Pray that my mom may visit me in a dream or through nature. Sometimes I even talk to my mom, I cannot hear her but I know she can hear me.
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