" When a parent dies you lose the past, when a spouse dies you lose the present, but when a child dies you lose the future."
I ran across this quote yesterday while I was reading some of the literature that I have been given on grieving. On the surface it sounds so true and yet if you reflect on it you are always losing the present and the future. The life you have known and the one you are presuming will occur, will change whenever there is a death. I think the loss of the future may be harder when a child dies because as a parent you are projecting not only your own future without the child, but also the future that the child would have (should have) had.
In reality death is tough no matter who it affects.
We will continue to move foreward.
2 comments:
You always give me such wonderful words to ponder! As much as this blog is an outlet and help to you -please know that it has a powerful influence on everyone of us that reads it!
You remain daily in my thoughts and prayers.
Loving you!
I have no doubt that, as you say, you will continue to move forward. I, however, marvel that you are doing so with such grace and courage. Be gentle with yourself and know that I think of you constantly.
Thank you for posting the eulogies which I have read and reread. Each time I have done so, I am moved by what a wonderful man John was and how very much he was loved.
Prayers continue your way.
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