Lying

my grandpa -
“Saw Gayle today. She was way down. You know her friend, the one that lost her husband last year…said she still wasn’t over it. It’s been a year.”

Gayle’s husband died about a month after my grandmother. Cancer. He was young.

He’s looking at me. He wants me to tell him it’ll stop hurting – eventually.

I lied.
I told him it gets better. There will be a day that it doesn’t consume your thoughts.
It won’t always be the very first thought every morning and the last before he sleeps.

3 years since Rick died…I’ve yet to see any of those days.

Comment posted by
at 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM

When my mom killed herself an aunt told me, “You’ll never get over it, but you’ll learn to live with it.”

For some, the living with it gets easier, for others, it doesn’t.