Re: MY DAD PASSED AWAY.........
Feeling your pain. My Dad passed on 12/3 last year. I still feel it although it has gotten better. Going to take time, no two ways about it. Just be prepared and "dig in" for the long haul. Read this, this really helped me. I carried it with me for a few months. Brings back tears re-typing it but YOU WILL GET BETTER, YOU WILL MOVE ON.<br /> Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away in to the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
