Loose Pages

In this past week or so since my friend Kev died, I have been going through a range of emotions. For the first two days after I found out, I listened to his songs all day and kept looking at his pictures and crying - no sobbing my eyes out. I just wanted to be left alone in my sadness. When my mom died, I pretty much did the same thing - I still have one of her sweaters that I haven't washed and when I really miss her and want to talk to her I grab her sweater and I feel her close to me. What's important to understand is that we all find our own way to get through our sadness. Each of us comes to terms of our loss in our own way - it's something that we each have to go through. As the days go by the pain, at least for me, eases up a bit as I start moving forward with my life without the person that I loved in it any longer. For other people it may take longer. And for others, even longer. We must be patient with each other as we work through our grief and just be with each other and realize how fragile life is.