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Allow me to introduce you to my friend, Grief . He has been walking with me since April and I do wonder when I may be left alone... Is there an FAQ for losing someone? Asking for a friend - not Grief , but me this time. It's been a little busy in my mindspace recently - you see, Grief is quite popular and since he started hanging out with me, he has all these other friends who've decided to join the party. Confusion . Waking up and feeling like it may be an ordinary day - but something, somewhere feels off, what could it be? Confusion . Having those around our family think that we're doing fine - how can they not see? Rage. She kind of roams around with no clear target - sometimes she's concerned with how modern medicine failed us, how they didn't detect how serious it was in time, how something, SOMEWHERE, might have saved my uncle. Gratitude . 26 years - I had 26 wonderful years to learn from him. Cut short though they may be, I'm grateful for every single day...

One can argue that one of the things that unites us as people is the inevitability of death. Yet, despite knowing that this end will come for all of us sooner or later and we have no way of controlling it, we refuse to make the most out of today. Sure, we don't want to actually live like we're going to die tomorrow; no work would ever get done that way. But at the same time, we sometimes act like we're going to live forever. Why is that, I wonder? Photo courtesy of Death to Stock   I won't move to that new country just yet; you see, I'll have all the time after I'm gone. That holiday my kids have been dying to go on? We'll go, definitely, after they're gone. I have a friend in Hong Kong I've been meaning to call and catch up with; but no rush, I can do it after she's gone. That person I've been wanting to ask out? Why rush it, I have all the time in the world. There's a song I've been wanting to write for years now, but hey. I'll ...

I didn't write this, but read it on Facebook and thought it was well worth sharing! Death is one of the hardest things that we have to deal with, and I think many of us struggle to find meaning when presented with the loss of a loved one. Sheryl struck a chord with what she wrote, and I thought you all should read it too!  Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband�the first thirty days. Judaism calls for a period of intense mourning known as shiva that lasts seven days after a loved one is buried. After shiva, most normal activities can be resumed, but it is the end of sheloshim that marks the completion of religious mourning for a spouse. A childhood friend of mine who is now a rabbi recently told me that the most powerful one-line prayer he has ever read is: �Let me not die while I am still alive.� I would have never understood that prayer before losing  Dave . Now I do. I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the ...